Europol together with partners from across the globe today announces a landmark blow to cybercriminal networks as part of Operation Endgame, a sweeping international operation targeting the criminal infrastructure behind ransomware and malware like SocGholish, Amadey, and StealC. In coordinated actions over the past two weeks, key components of these malicious toolkits were dismantled as part of a public-private effort.
This included law enforcement from Canada, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, the United States, the US software company Microsoft and other private partners, with the international activity coordinated by Europol and Eurojust. The main common goal was to disrupt the “assembly lines” cybercriminals use to launch ransomware, financial fraud, and attacks on critical infrastructure.
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Source: EUROPOL
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