Operation Delilah: Unit 42 Helps INTERPOL Identify Nigerian Business Email Compromise Actor
Summary: INTERPOL and The Nigeria Police Force arrested a prominent business email compromise actor active since 2015, tracked by Unit 42 as SilverTerrier, who fled Nigeria in June 2021 and was detained in March 2022 when he tried to re-enter the country. The arrest is part of Operation Delilah, a counter-BEC effort begun in May 2021 spanning four continents, and Unit 42 identified over 240 domains registered under the actor's aliases, more than 50 of them used for malware command and control.
What you should know: BEC has held the top spot on the FBI IC3 report for six years running, with global losses rising from $360 million in 2016 to $2.3 billion in 2021 - and this actor alone operated for seven years before being caught.
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