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A coalition of outside law enforcement government agency say they have interrupt the operations of two prolific infostealers that stole the sore data of zillion of people .
The Dutch National Police , who led the so - called “ Operation Magnus ” takedown , report it gain “ full access ” to the servers used by the Redline and Meta infostealers .
Infostealers are a type ofmalwarespecifically design to extract sensible selective information , such as passwords , credit rating posting data , search history , and the contents of cryptocurrency wallets , from an septic system .
Redline is consider one of the most fertile stock of infostealer malware . criminal have been using Redline , which has been active since 2020 , to steal the sensitive information of hundreds of 1000000 of people , according to arecent report card . The malware has been attributed toa 2022 nag at Uber , thetheft of login item from Worldcoin Orb wheeler dealer , andthe breach of a older official at Israel ’s National Cybersecurity Directorate .
Meta is a relatively Modern infostealer , though Operation Magnus observe : “ We gained full access to all Redline and Meta server . Did you know they were really somewhat much the same ? ”
In a video posted to the internet site on Monday , the government agency say they were able to reach the usernames , word , IP addresses , timestamps and readjustment dates , along with the source code for both infostealers , and the Telegram bot used by the operator of the malware .
The agencies also teased a list of usernames belonging to “ VIP ” — or “ very important to the law ” — users of the Redline and Meta infostealers . It ’s not yet readable if any arrests have been made as part of the operation , but the website claims that “ sound actions are underway . ”
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Operation Magnus , which was supported by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.K. ’s National Crime Agency , was harbinger on anewly created websiteouting the Redline and Meta operations . Simone van Wordragen , a voice for the Dutch National Police , say TechCrunch that it will free more data about the put-down on Tuesday .
A alike squelch approach was taken during the recentoperation point LockBit , which saw constabulary take control of the ransomware mob ’s dark web outflow site to post item of the operation .
