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The "largest ever" botnet takedown operation is happening right now — Operation Endgame takes multiple criminal gangs offline
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Europol and its partners are currently running the “largest ever operation against botnets,” targeting multiple malware droppers, seizing hundreds of servers, thousands of domains, and even making a few arrests. It was left unclear if this suspect is arrested or currently on the run, however, Europol said their transactions are “constantly being monitored” and that it has legal permission to seize them if necessary, hinting that this person is not yet in custody. Armenia, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Portugal, Romania, Switzerland and Ukraine also supported the operation with different actions, such as arrests, interviewing suspects, searches, and seizures or takedowns of servers and domains, Europol concluded, also saying that a number of private security firms participated as well, naming Bitdefender, Cryptolaemus, Sekoia, Shadowserver, Team Cymru, Prodaft, Proofpoint, NFIR, Computest, Northwave, Fox-IT, HaveIBeenPwned, Spamhaus, DIVD, abuse.ch and Zscaler.
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