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Operation Endgame malware takedown turns up over 6 million stolen logins

Police in nine countries, working with Europol, took down servers behind the Gootloader, CastleRAT and StealC malware operations this week and recovered more than 6 million credentials stolen from infected computers.

Operation Endgame malware takedown turns up over 6 million stolen logins

Europol announced the action as the latest round of Operation Endgame, the international campaign against the services that give ransomware gangs their way into a network. Those logins are what reach ordinary users and companies. The suspects sold credentials they had harvested from victims’ … More → An international police operation took down servers behind Gootloader, CastleRAT and StealC this week.

Criminals used the three malware tools to gain access to computers, steal passwords, and launch ransomware attacks. Police also seized about 6.4 million stolen logins belonging to more than 40,000 victims, according to Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA).

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