""The dismantled malware infrastructure consisted of hundreds of thousands of infected computers containing several million stolen credentials. Many of the victims were not aware of the infection of their systems," Europol said."
""The main suspect behind the infostealer had access to over 100,000 crypto wallets belonging to these victims, potentially worth millions of euros.""
""In addition to the infrastructure disruption, it's likely that this operation will also negatively affect the criminals' reputation, leading affiliates to mistrust them," the firm pointed out."
Europol disrupted Rhadamanthys infostealer, VenomRAT, and Elysium botnet operations and took down more than 1,000 servers used to infect hundreds of thousands of victims worldwide. Authorities searched locations in Germany, Greece, and the Netherlands, seized 20 domains, and made one arrest in Greece linked to VenomRAT. The dismantled infrastructure included hundreds of thousands of infected computers and several million stolen credentials. A suspect had access to over 100,000 crypto wallets potentially worth millions of euros, although those assets had not yet been used to steal funds. Rhadamanthys harvests browser-resident credentials, autofill data, and crypto wallet artifacts.
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