The operation of several groups that committed crimes of stealing public data using malware was successfully paralyzed today. The raids were carried out simultaneously by police in 26 countries including the Royal Malaysian Police and resulted in the arrest of 32 suspects. In total, more than 20,000 domains and IPs used for malware activities as well as 42 browser machines were seized.
Also seized was 100GB of data with more than 216,000 of which have been contacted by authorities. The malware was used to steal account login information, financial data and crypto wallets. It was then sold on the dark web to steal identities.
The national police involved in this massive raid are Brunei, Fiji, Philippines, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Cambodia, Solomon Islands, Kiribati, Korea, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, Maldives, Nauru, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Vanuatu, and Vietnam.