Operation Endgame Dismantles Rhadamanthys Venom RAT and Elysium Botnet in Global Crackdown
As part of a coordinated law enforcement operation spearheaded by Europol and Eurojust, malware families such as Rhadamanthys Stealer, Venom RAT, and the Elysium botnet have been disrupted.
Scheduled for November 10–13, 2025, the event represents the most recent stage of Operation Endgame, a continuing initiative aimed at dismantling criminal infrastructures and fighting against ransomware enablers globally.
In addition to dismantling the "three large cybercrime enablers," authorities arrested the primary suspect of Venom RAT in Greece on November 3, took down over 1,025 servers, and seized 20 domains.
According to a statement from Europol, the dismantled malware infrastructure was made up of hundreds of thousands of infected computers that housed several million stolen credentia...