This is a great week, more arrests and takedowns

A bunch of companies including proofpoint were involved in assisting the take down of at least 100 servers and several arrests. IcedID is one of the bad things that were taken down and I know we’ve talked about it in podcasts without mentioning it in notations.

Police seize over 100 malware loader servers, arrest four cybercriminals comes to us from Bleeping Computer.

This action took place between may 27th and may 29th and podcasts will definitely be talking about this including the wire from May 30th which is when I’m writing this.

Three of the people were in Ukraine and one was somewhere I’ve not heard of before but mentioned in the article.

Servers all over the world were seized and over 2,000 domains were used in various campaigns which were disrupted.

Operation Endgame involved police forces from Germany, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Denmark, and the Netherlands.

The article continues:

The operation was supported by intelligence provided by experts from Bitdefender, Cryptolaemus, Sekoia, Shadowserver, Team Cymru, Prodaft, Proofpoint, NFIR, Computest, Northwave, Fox-IT, HaveIBeenPwned, Spamhaus, and DIVD.

Some of these agencies I know of and others I don’t.

We know that millions of computers were infected as IceID was very popular.

Lots of the malware including Ice ID were starting as simple malware like banking trojans and then evolved.

Other coverage

Some of these I have not read, but at the time of writing are published. They may cover this differently and that’s what we’re all about. Keep up the great work!

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