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Law Enforcement Disrupts Gootloader, CastleRAT, and StealC Infrastructure

Investigators seized 235 servers and 257 domains, along with 6.4 million victim credentials as part of Operation Endgame.

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Investigators seized 235 servers and 257 domains, along with 6.4 million victim credentials as part of Operation Endgame. Law enforcement agencies in the US, Europe, Australia, and Canada have seized infrastructure behind the notorious Gootloader, CastleRAT, and StealC malware. The investigators seized 235 servers and 257 domains associated with the malicious operations, severely crippling their distribution networks, Europol says. Operating under the cybercrime-as-a-service model, Gootloader, CastleRAT, and StealC enabled ransomware attacks, data theft, and other cybercrime activities.

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