Cybercrime Atlas: Impact Report 2025

The Cybercrime Atlas is a World Economic Forum-hosted initiative that uses open-source intelligence (OSINT) to map cybercriminal ecosystems and identify 'choke points' for disruption. Between 2024 and 2025, the community grew to over 30 participating organizations and served as an operational partner for INTERPOL and AFRIPOL's Operation Serengeti and Serengeti 2.0 in Africa. These operations resulted in over 2,200 arrests, the recovery of approximately $141 million, and the takedown of over 145,000 malicious networks. The initiative also provides capacity-building training for public-sector officials in Asia, South-East Europe, and the Americas, and has established formal research collaborations with entities like STOP THE TRAFFIK to combat cyber-scam farms.

• The Cybercrime Atlas acted as an operational partner for Operations Serengeti and Serengeti 2.0, coordinated by INTERPOL and AFRIPOL across 19 African countries. Combined, these operations led to 2,215 arrests, the takedown of 145,521 malicious networks, and the recovery of $141,382,765 in funds.
• The initiative utilizes open-source intelligence (OSINT) to build a shared knowledge base of the cybercriminal ecosystem, which helps bypass data-sharing and privacy restrictions that often hinder collaboration between different jurisdictions and organizations.
• In November 2024, the Cybercrime Atlas established the Research and Mapping group to identify 'choke points'—single points of failure in criminal infrastructure—to achieve long-lasting disruption of cybercriminal activities.
• The Cybercrime Atlas has delivered pre-operation training to public-sector decision-makers, including prosecutors and unit commanders, in more than 40 countries across Asia, South-East Europe, and the Americas.
• The initiative has expanded its partnerships to include the European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) at Europol and a formalized collaboration with the UK-based non-profit STOP THE TRAFFIK to research the link between human trafficking and cyber-scam farms.
• The community grew from 22 participating organizations in 2023-2024 to more than 30 in 2024-2025, incorporating a diverse range of experts from banking, cybersecurity vendors, and law enforcement.

APA

World Economic Forum (2025). Cybercrime Atlas: Impact Report 2025. https://reports.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Cybercrime_Atlas_Impact_Report_2025.pdf

Chicago

World Economic Forum. Cybercrime Atlas: Impact Report 2025. 2025. https://reports.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Cybercrime_Atlas_Impact_Report_2025.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{worldeconomicforum2025cybercrime, author = {{World Economic Forum}}, title = {{Cybercrime Atlas: Impact Report 2025}}, institution = {World Economic Forum}, year = {2025}, month = oct, url = {https://reports.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Cybercrime_Atlas_Impact_Report_2025.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }