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Operation Endgame Disables Rhadamanthys, Hits VenomRAT in Global Cybercrime Sweep

Officials say the next phase focuses on choking off finances to support forthcoming prosecutions.

Overview

  • Authorities took more than 1,000 attacker-controlled servers offline worldwide, including over 180 located in Germany.
  • The technical infrastructure of the Rhadamanthys credential stealer was disabled, with additional measures applied against the VenomRAT remote-access trojan.
  • Investigators secured compromised data from over 650,000 victims and published lookup portals for individuals to verify exposure.
  • Eleven searches were executed and one suspect was arrested in Greece as part of a cross-border operation involving the Netherlands, France, Denmark, Belgium and the United States with support from Europol and Eurojust.
  • Leading cryptocurrency exchanges froze assets exceeding $200 million to restrict criminals’ access to illicit proceeds.