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Operation Endgame 3.0 Disrupts Rhadamanthys, VenomRAT and Elysium in Global Takedown

Victim notifications begin through a law enforcement partnership with cybersecurity firms.

Overview

  • Coordinated from Europol’s Hague command post between November 10 and 14, authorities disrupted or seized 1,025 servers, took 20 domains, and searched 11 locations in Germany, Greece and the Netherlands.
  • Police arrested a key suspect tied to VenomRAT in Greece on November 3, with broader investigations and follow‑up actions ongoing.
  • Europol reports hundreds of thousands of infected computers and several million stolen credentials, and says the Rhadamanthys operator had access to over 100,000 cryptocurrency wallets.
  • Shadowserver says a Rhadamanthys database showed more than 525,000 infections and 86 million records, while Have I Been Pwned received 2 million email addresses and 7.4 million passwords for alerts.
  • Potential victims are urged to check exposure and remediate via politie.nl/checkyourhack and haveibeenpwned.com.