Executive Summary: Operation Endgame Strikes Back
- International law enforcement agencies successfully neutralized the backbone of three major malware operations-SocGholish, Amadey, and StealC-freezing over €41 million ($47 million) in illicit cryptocurrency.
- The coordinated effort resulted in the seizure of 326 servers and 142 domains, effectively neutralizing 27 million stolen credentials harvested from more than 385,000 compromised devices.
- This initiative marks a significant blow to the “cybercrime-as-a-service” ecosystem, which relies on automated tools to siphon sensitive data and facilitate ransomware attacks.
In a massive blow to the digital underground, a multi-national task force has successfully disrupted a sophisticated network of “cybercrime-as-a-service” (CaaS) operations. Europol confirmed this week that the latest iteration of Operation Endgame has successfully frozen approximately €41 million in crypto assets linked to criminal enterprises. This two-week offensive targeted the operational infrastructure of three notorious malware families: SocG
