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Police Dismantles Gootloader, CastleRAT, StealC Malware Infrastructure

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Europol and law enforcement partners from nine countries have seized hundreds of servers and domains used by the Gootloader, CastleRAT, and StealC malware operations.

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The police and the Public Prosecution Service (OM) have taken down a total of twenty cybercriminal servers in the Netherlands in an international operation as part of Operation Endgame. Fourteen servers were used to distribute malware via search engines. The other six servers were used to distribute the so-called remote access trojan (RAT) CastleRAT. This is malware that allows cybercriminals to remotely control computers and networks. The autho…

·Amsterdam, Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
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Authorities claim to have identified 6.4 million victim credentials Source: Europol dismantles malware network and seizes hundreds of domains and servers See more news about Bitcoin. Follow Livecoins on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.

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An international operation supported by Europol has allowed the infrastructure behind Gootloader, CastleRAT and StealC to be dismantled and more than 6 million victim credentials to be identified.

The Dutch police have shut down twenty servers that were being used to distribute malicious software. This occurred during an international operation against cybercrime. Globally, more than 6.4 million stolen records were secured in the process, the police reported on Thursday.

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BleepingComputer broke the news in Melville, United States on Thursday, November 12, 2026.
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