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# Serengeti 2.0

August 2025, Fraud and stolen data
Led by [International Criminal Police Organization](https://takedownindex.org/organizations/international-criminal-police-organization), [African Union Mechanism for Police Cooperation](https://takedownindex.org/organizations/african-union-mechanism-for-police-cooperation)

Extended pass entry, last reviewed August 21, 2026

What was taken down?

More than 11,000 malicious infrastructures disrupted.

[See what happened](#what-happened)

What happened to the people?

No individual outcomes are recorded against this entry.
Group accounted for: Not applicable

[See people and accountability](#people)

Did it stay down?

Not established in the public record. No later activity is recorded against this entry.

[See what happened afterward](#afterward)

## What happened

A joint INTERPOL/AFRIPOL operation across 18 African countries plus the UK disrupted more than 11,000 malicious infrastructures connected to online fraud.

**Date:** August 2025

**Target:** Fraud infrastructure across 18 African countries, multi threat infrastructure

**Activity:** Fraud and stolen data

**Operational lead:** INTERPOL and AFRIPOL

**Jurisdiction:** Not established

**Outcome:** More than 11,000 malicious infrastructures disrupted.

**Status:** Completed

**Legal mechanism:** Coordinated national judicial/search-and-seizure authority across participating countries.

**Group accounted for:** Not applicable

## People and accountability

No individual is named against this entry in the cited record. That is a gap in what has been published rather than a finding that nobody was involved.

Group accounted for: Not applicable

The cited record does not say how large the group was or whether everyone involved has been identified.

[See the organizations and roles behind this action](https://takedownindex.org/takedowns/serengeti-2-0/organizations)

## What happened afterward

Not established in the public record. No later activity is recorded against this entry.

## Sources

Numbered markers throughout this entry link to the source that supports the claim beside them.

### Official sources

1.
[Operation Serengeti 2.0 disrupts over 11,000 malicious cyber infrastructures in Africa](https://takedownindex.org/sources/interpol-afripol-operation-serengeti-2-0-disrupts-over-11-000-malicious-cyber-in)

INTERPOL / AFRIPOL, August 22, 2025, Source grade P2

Establishes the 18-country-plus-UK scope and 11,000+ malicious infrastructures figure.

No address recorded for this source. Publisher, title, and date are given so it can be retrieved from the publisher.

Coverage note. Added from deep-research aggregation pass. Not independently re-verified source-by-source to the same standard as the original 38-incident core; source\_quality capped at S2/P2 pending a dedicated verification pass.

Research context

## How this entry was checked

This entry came from a broader aggregation pass and has not been independently verified source by source. Its sources are graded no higher than P2 or S2, and most carry no address yet. Treat the figures as a research lead rather than a settled record.

Source review: Extended pass, not yet verified

Sources cited: 1

Research cutoff: August 20, 2026

Last reviewed August 21, 2026

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