{"id":10401,"date":"2022-01-21T11:32:29","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T10:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/nigerian-authorities-arrest-11-members-of-prolific-bec-fraud-group\/"},"modified":"2022-01-21T11:32:29","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T10:32:29","slug":"nigerian-authorities-arrest-11-members-of-prolific-bec-fraud-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/nigerian-authorities-arrest-11-members-of-prolific-bec-fraud-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Authorities Arrest 11 Members of Prolific BEC Fraud Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span><span>Nigerian authorities have arrested 11 individuals believed to be members of the business email compromise (BEC) crime ring tracked as SilverTerrier.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span><span>The 11 suspects were arrested as part of a 10-day operation (December 13-22, 2021) in which the Nigerian Police collaborated with Interpol and private security firms Palo Alto Networks and Group-IB.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.securityweek.com\/nigerian-authorities-arrest-11-members-prolific-bec-fraud-group\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?a=VB2iiO85L0Q:hcTsCzoLXgk:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?a=VB2iiO85L0Q:hcTsCzoLXgk:-BTjWOF_DHI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?i=VB2iiO85L0Q:hcTsCzoLXgk:-BTjWOF_DHI\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?a=VB2iiO85L0Q:hcTsCzoLXgk:dnMXMwOfBR0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?d=dnMXMwOfBR0\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?a=VB2iiO85L0Q:hcTsCzoLXgk:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?i=VB2iiO85L0Q:hcTsCzoLXgk:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?a=VB2iiO85L0Q:hcTsCzoLXgk:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?a=VB2iiO85L0Q:hcTsCzoLXgk:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?i=VB2iiO85L0Q:hcTsCzoLXgk:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?a=VB2iiO85L0Q:hcTsCzoLXgk:TzevzKxY174\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?d=TzevzKxY174\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?a=VB2iiO85L0Q:hcTsCzoLXgk:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?i=VB2iiO85L0Q:hcTsCzoLXgk:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian authorities have arrested 11 individuals believed to be members of the business email compromise (BEC) crime ring tracked as SilverTerrier. The 11 suspects were arrested as part of a 10-day operation (December 13-22, 2021) in which the Nigerian Police collaborated with Interpol and private security firms Palo Alto Networks and Group-IB. read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,30,11,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybercrime","category-fraud-identity-theft","category-news-industry","category-tracking-law-enforcement"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}