Nov 13, 2025Ravie LakshmananBotnet / Cybercrime
Malware households like Rhadamanthys Stealer, Venom RAT, and the Elysium botnet have been disrupted as a part of a coordinated regulation enforcement operation led by Europol and Eurojust.
The exercise, which is going down between November 10 and 13, 2025, marks the most recent part of Operation Endgame, an ongoing operation designed to take down legal infrastructures and fight ransomware enablers worldwide.
Moreover dismantling the “three giant cybercrime enablers,” authorities have additionally arrested the primary suspect behind Venom RAT in Greece on November 3, greater than 1,025 servers have been taken down, and 20 domains have been seized.
“The dismantled malware infrastructure consisted of tons of of hundreds of contaminated computer systems containing a number of million stolen credentials,” Europol stated in a press release. “Lots of the victims weren’t conscious of the an infection of their methods.”
It is presently not clear if the Elysium botnet Europol refers to is identical proxy botnet service RHAD safety (aka Legendary Origin Labs), the menace actor related to Rhadamanthys, was noticed promoting as just lately as final month.
Europol additionally famous that the primary suspect behind the infostealer had entry to a minimum of 100,000 cryptocurrency wallets belonging to victims, doubtlessly amounting to tens of millions of euros.
A current evaluation revealed by Examine Level revealed that the most recent model of Rhadamanthys added help for amassing gadget and net browser fingerprints, together with incorporating a number of mechanisms to fly below the radar.
Authorities that participated within the effort included regulation enforcement companies from Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Lithuania, the Netherlands, and the U.S.
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