Europol has announced a major breakthrough in the global fight against cybercrime, revealing on November 13 that it successfully dismantled three of the most active and dangerous cybercriminal networks operating today. The coordinated action-part of the ongoing Operation Endgame-took down the infrastructure behind the Rhadamanthys infostealer, the VenomRAT remote-access trojan, and the Elysium botnet. These networks, long known to cybersecurity experts for their role in enabling ransomware attacks and large-scale online fraud, had infected hundreds of thousands of computers across the world and facilitated the theft of millions of digital credentials.

The latest phase of Operation Endgame, led jointly by Europol and Eurojust, also involved the active participation of 11 countries as well as several prominent private cybersecurity firms. The collaboration illustrates a growing trend in global law-enforcement operations: recognizing that cybercrime, by its nature, has no borders and therefore demands multinational cooperation, intelligence sharing, and technical assistance from private-sector experts.

At the heart of the operation’s success was the dismantling of infrastructure used by the three malware families. Investigators arrested one suspect in Greece, searched 11 properties across Europe, and took more than 1,000 servers offline. Many of these servers hosted malicious........

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