Over 1.4 Million Accounts Disrupted in Cybercrime Crackdown
Law enforcement agencies and tech companies disrupted over 1.4 million accounts and underlying infrastructure used by scam networks across Southeast Asia.
The joint effort, named Disruption Week, involved the US Department of Justice’s Scam Center Strike Force, the Royal Thai Police, global law enforcement, and companies such as Apple, Coinbase, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Silent Push, SpaceX, TRM Labs, and Zenlayer.
As part of the operation, more than 1.4 million social media accounts, pages, and groups on Facebook and Instagram, as well as Microsoft accounts and Starlink kits, were disrupted, and 63 individuals involved in scam activities were arrested.
The effort also resulted in the disruption of malicious IP address traffic and network connections used by the scammers, and in the decommissioning of associated servers and hosting infrastructure.
Disruption Week targeted numerous fraud schemes operated out of industrial-scale compounds in Cambodia, Laos, and Burma.
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