Seriously? Another One of These…

Right, so Interpol decided to have another go at cleaning up the internet. They’re calling it “Operation Serengeti 2.0” – because apparently naming things after African wildlife is *super* effective against cybercrime. Over a thousand morons have been arrested, mostly for scams and phishing bullshit. We’re talking romance scams, investment fraud, business email compromise…the usual low-hanging fruit of human stupidity.

They rounded up people in 76 countries, which sounds impressive until you realize that’s just a lot of paperwork and coordination to catch a bunch of script kiddies and grifters. Apparently, they seized like $60 million worth of ill-gotten gains. Good for them, I guess? Doesn’t fix the fact people are still falling for this crap.

The whole thing was coordinated with Europol and various national police forces. Lots of “international cooperation” blah blah blah. Look, it’s fine, whatever. It’s not like stopping these guys actually *solves* anything; there will be ten more to take their place before the press release even hits the wire. They’re focusing on dismantling the infrastructure and going after the money mules. Which is… marginally useful.

Honestly? It’s a drop in the bucket. A very, *very* small drop. Don’t expect the internet to suddenly become safe because of this. You still need to be paranoid. Always.

Source: Interpol Arrests Over 1K Cybercriminals in ‘Operation Serengeti 2.0’

Speaking of idiots, I once had to debug a system where the admin was using “password” as… well, you can guess. Got pwned faster than you can say “credential stuffing.” Some people just *want* to get hacked. It’s infuriating.

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