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An international coalition of law enforcement agencies coordinated by Europol targeted and took down three cybercrime operations in its latest round of what authorities call \u201cOperation Endgame.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a press release<\/a>, Europol said that the police operation targeted the infostealing malware<\/a> Rhadamanthys, a botnet called Elysium, and the remote access trojan VenomRAT. The authorities say all three \u201cplayed a key role in international cybercrime.\u201d Police seized more than 1,000 servers as part of the operation.\u00a0<\/p>\n Europol said police arrested the unnamed \u201cmain suspect\u201d behind VenomRAT in Greece on November 3.<\/p>\n \u201cThe dismantled malware infrastructure consisted of hundreds of thousands of infected computers containing several million stolen credentials,\u201d the press release read. \u201cMany of the victims were not aware of the infection of their systems.\u201d<\/p>\n According to Europol, the main suspect behind Rhadamantys had access to over 100,000 crypto wallets, \u201cpotentially worth millions of euros.\u201d<\/p>\n As an infostealer, Rhadamantys is designed to steal various kinds of information from infected devices, including passwords and cryptocurrency wallet keys. Rhadamantys spiked in popularity in October after authorities took down the popular infostealer Lumma<\/a> earlier in the year, showing that after takedowns, criminals adapt by using different hacking tools that might be less known at the time.<\/p>\n When Rhadamantys launched in 2022, it initially relied on spreading through malicious Google advertisements, and later grew thanks to word-of-mouth on underground forums, according to Lumen\u2019s Black Lotus Labs, one of the cybersecurity industry partners in Operation Endgame.\u00a0<\/p>\n Techcrunch event<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSan Francisco<\/span>
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