Between 10 and 13 November 2025, the latest phase of Operation Endgame was coordinated from Europol’s headquarters in The Hague. The actions targeted one of the biggest infostealers Rhadamanthys, the Remote Access Trojan VenomRAT, and the botnet Elysium, all of which played a key role in international cybercrime.
Authorities took down these three large cybercrime enablers. The main suspect for VenomRAT was also arrested in Greece on 3 November 2025. The infrastructure dismantled during the action days was responsible for infecting hundreds of thousands of victims worldwide with malware. Operation Endgame, coordinated by Europol and Eurojust, is a joint effort between law enforcement and judicial authorities of Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Lithuania, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States to tackle ransomware enablers.
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Source: Europol
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