A year-long worldwide investigation has resulted within the arrest of the suspected head of the SilverTerrier cybercrime group by the Nigeria Police Pressure.
“The suspect is alleged to have run a transnational cybercrime syndicate that launched mass phishing campaigns and enterprise e mail compromise schemes concentrating on firms and particular person victims,” Interpol stated in an announcement.
Operation Delilah, because the coordinated worldwide effort is named, concerned monitoring the 37-year-old Nigerian man’s bodily actions, earlier than he was apprehended at Murtala Muhammed Worldwide Airport in Lagos in March 2022.
Singapore-headquartered cybersecurity firm Group-IB stated it offered risk intelligence that led to the arrest as a part of the police operation that commenced in Could 2021.
In line with Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42, which additionally assisted within the probe into SilverTerrier exercise, the unnamed suspect is alleged to have been energetic since 2015 and concerned within the creation of over 240 domains, of which 50 have been used to offer command-and-control for malware resembling LokiBot.
Unit 42 additionally famous that the legal actor evaded arrest throughout a previous sting by fleeing Nigeria in June 2021 solely to be caught when making an attempt to get again dwelling earlier this March. Moreover, he tried to promote his Autobiography Particular Version Vary Rover for five.8 million Naira (about $14,000) on Fb earlier than leaving the nation.
The event is the third in a sequence of legislation enforcement actions aimed on the identification and arrest of the suspected members of the SilverTerrier gang (aka TMT).
In November 2020, three alleged members of the group have been arrested for compromising a minimum of 500,000 authorities and personal sector firms in additional than 150 international locations since 2017. This was adopted by the arrests of 11 extra members earlier this yr as a part of an operation dubbed Falcon.
