Greece arrests man in Europol's global 'Endgame' operation against cybercrime

14/11/2025 16:51

Greece has arrested a 38-year-old man as part of a Europol crackdown on international cybercrime, during which authorities dismantled malware infrastructure that has infected hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide, police said.



The pan-European law enforcement cooperation agency Europol said on Thursday that in the latest phase of "Operation Endgame" across 10 countries, including the United States, it targeted infostealers Rhadamanthys, the Remote Access Trojan VenomRAT and the botnet Elysium.



The malware infrastructure dismantled this week consisted of hundreds of thousands of infected computers containing several million stolen credentials, Europol said. Many of the victims did not know that their systems were infected.



In total, 1,025 servers were taken down or disrupted worldwide and 20 domains were seized.



The man, an Albanian national arrested in Athens on November 3, is allegedly the creator and seller of VenomRAT since 2020, Greek police officials said. He was detained on a European arrest warrant issued by France.



"The main suspect behind the infostealer had access to over 100,000 crypto wallets belonging to these victims, potentially worth millions of euros," Europol said.