Is This Endgame? How Takedowns Are Reshaping eCrime

Adversary Universe Podcast · Dec 18, 2025 · 35m

In November 2025, a major public-private sector collaboration took down three significant malware networks. Operation Endgame involved law enforcement agencies from six EU countries, Australia, Canada, the U.K., and the U.S., along with Europol and 30 private sector partners, including CrowdStrike. The dismantled infrastructure consisted of hundreds of thousands of infected computers containing several million stolen credentials.

Operation Endgame was a critical disruption of adversary operations — but it wasn’t the first. Law enforcement has for years sought to take down adversary…