Tag Archives: arrests

23/05/2025

Europol Strikes Ransomware Networks Worldwide

As part of the latest “season” of Operation Endgame, a coalition of law enforcement agencies have taken down about 300 servers worldwide, neutralized 650 domains, and issued arrest warrants against 20 targets. Operation Endgame, first launched in May 2024, is an ongoing law enforcement operation targeting services and infrastructures assisting in or directly providing initial or […]

Europe
23/05/2025

US Dismantles global DanaBot Malware Network

A federal grand jury indictment and criminal complaint unsealed today charge 16 defendants who allegedly developed and deployed the DanaBot malware which a Russia-based cybercrime organisation controlled and deployed, infecting more than 300,000 victim computers around the world, facilitated fraud and ransomware, and caused at least $50 million in damage. The defendants include Aleksandr Stepanov, 39, a.k.a. “JimmBee” and […]

APAC, Europe, UK
22/05/2025

FBI and Europol Disrupt Lumma Stealer Malware Network

A sprawling operation undertaken by global law enforcement agencies and a consortium of private sector firms has disrupted the online infrastructure associated with a commodity information stealer known as Lumma (aka LummaC or LummaC2), seizing 2,300 domains that acted as the command-and-control (C2) backbone to commandeer infected Windows systems. The US Justice Department announced the unsealing of […]

Europe