{"id":251497,"date":"2026-05-18T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T22:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/interpol-operation-ramz-seizes-53-malware-phishing-servers\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T11:40:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T15:40:51","slug":"interpol-operation-ramz-seizes-53-malware-phishing-servers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/interpol-operation-ramz-seizes-53-malware-phishing-servers\/","title":{"rendered":"INTERPOL \u2018Operation Ramz\u2019 seizes 53 malware, phishing servers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/interpol-operation-ramz-seizes-53-malware-phishing-servers\/\">INTERPOL \u2018Operation Ramz\u2019 seizes 53 malware, phishing servers<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/interpol-operation-ramz-seizes-53-malware-phishing-servers\/\">https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/interpol-operation-ramz-seizes-53-malware-phishing-servers\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-18 18:15:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.bleepingcomputer.com\">www.bleepingcomputer.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">\n<p>More than 200 individuals were arrested for cybercrime activities during INTERPOL&#8217;s Operation Ramz, which focused on the Middle East and North Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement also identified another 382 suspects across 13 countries (Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Tunisia, and the UAE).<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the arrests, authorities seized 53 servers used for phishing, malware, and online fraud that affected at least 3,867 confirmed victims, as determined from nearly 8,000 intelligence packages retrieved from the equipment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe operation focused on neutralizing phishing and malware threats, as well as tackling cyber scams that inflict severe cost to the region,\u201d reads the INTERPOL announcement.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Seized devices\" height=\"528\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bleepstatic.com\/images\/news\/u\/1220909\/2026\/May\/seizeddevs.jpg\" width=\"800\"\/><strong>Seized devices in Jordan<\/strong><br \/>Source: INTERPOL<\/p>\n<p>INTERPOL collaborated with several private cybersecurity firms to track the malicious infrastructure, including Kaspersky, Group-IB, The Shadowserver Foundation, Team Cymru, and TrendAI.<\/p>\n<p>Some highlights of \u2018Operation Ramz\u2019 include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>securing compromised devices unknowingly used to spread malware in\u00a0Qatar<\/li>\n<li>dismantling an investment scam operation in Jordan, where 15 trafficked workers from Asia were forced to run fraud schemes; two organizers were arrested<\/li>\n<li>disabling a vulnerable malware-infected server containing sensitive data in\u00a0Oman<\/li>\n<li>shutting down a phishing-as-a-service platform in Algeria and arresting one suspect<\/li>\n<li>seizing devices and banking data linked to phishing operations in Morocco, with multiple suspects under judicial investigation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is the third major cybercrime crackdown operation INTERPOL has concluded this year.<\/p>\n<p>In March, the authorities announced \u2018Operation Synergia III,\u2019 which resulted in sinkholing\u00a045,000 malicious IP addresses, the seizure of 212 devices and servers, and the arrest of 94 individuals across 72 countries, for participating in phishing, hacking, fraud, and malware distribution.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, in February, INTERPOL&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/interpol-operation-ramz-seizes-53-malware-phishing-servers\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INTERPOL \u2018Operation Ramz\u2019 seizes 53 malware, phishing servers https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/interpol-operation-ramz-seizes-53-malware-phishing-servers\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-18 18:15:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":251498,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.bleepstatic.com\/content\/hl-images\/2026\/05\/18\/INTERPOL.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[24,32,25],"class_list":["post-251497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-cybersecurity","tag-malware","tag-phishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251499,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251497\/revisions\/251499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}