“Of the approximately 30,000 suspicious IP addresses identified, 76 per cent were taken down and 59 servers were seized.”
Operation Synergia II ran from April through August across 95 member countries and produced 41 arrests. That is fewer than one arrest for every two countries. Group-IB, Trend Micro, Kaspersky and Team Cymru found the servers, and police mostly unplugged them. The headline counts IP addresses because the arrest count can’t carry it.