Authorities recovered more than $105 million and arrested 1,462 suspects in a coordinated cybercrime operation across 21 countries, INTERPOL announced on October 22. Investigators identified nearly 66,000 victims and linked the cases to losses exceeding $385 million.
Operation Serengeti III ran from June 29 to August 31, targeting ransomware, online scams and business email fraud. Police disrupted 10,909 malicious networks. Cases included suspected investment fraud in Uganda and cryptocurrency mining sites in Angola. Several investigations remain open.
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A new token promoted through crypto influencer Kimchi’s X account reportedly collapsed shortly after launch. Posts connected to the token and his Pump.fun collaboration were later deleted, prompting rug-pull allegations, according to Wiretap’s October 22 report.
Separately, blockchain analyst Lookonchain reported that a wallet it attributed to Kimchi withdrew 1.35 billion PUMP tokens from Binance and OKX, worth about $6.43 million at the time. That figure describes a reported token transfer, not confirmed investor losses. The available reporting does not establish who caused the collapse.
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Capcom says unauthorized access to its CAPCOM ID service affected 11,774,247 email address records worldwide. The exposed information also included account creation dates, login activity and the IP address used at the last login. The company detected the intrusion on October 19 and disclosed it on October 22.
Passwords on 196 accounts were changed without permission and have been reset. Capcom says it has not confirmed exposure of passwords originally chosen by customers, and credit card information was not affected. Games remain available. The company is contacting affected users and warns that their details could be used in fraudulent messages.
