A total of 201 individuals were arrested, and 382 additional suspects were identified in a law enforcement crackdown on phishing and malware threats in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
Named Operation Ramz, the 13-country effort also resulted in the seizure of 53 servers and in the identification of 3,867 victims across participating jurisdictions, Interpol announced.
Law enforcement agencies in Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Tunisia, and the UAE participated in the operation, which ran from October 2025 to 28 February 2026.
Authorities received support from multiple private partners, including Group-IB, Kaspersky, the Shadowserver Foundation, Team Cymru, and TrendAI, which helped track the illegal activities and identify the malicious infrastructure.
In Algeria, law enforcement shut down a phishing-as-a-service (Phaas) website, arrested one suspect, and seized a server, a computer, a phone, and hard drives containing malicious software and scripts.
