Four people are arrested and more than 2,000 internet domains across the globe are seized as part of an international crackdown on cybercrime, with police warning more action is to come.
The operation — dubbed Endgame — was coordinated by the Europe an Union's judicial cooperation agency Eurojust .Four "high value" suspects were arrested during the raids —The operation involved coordinated action in Germany, the Netherlands, France, Denmark, Ukraine, the United States and United Kingdom, Eurojust said.
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"Millions of people are also victims because their systems were infected, making them part of these botnets," Dutch police said. "Where cybercriminals previously used their ability to operate across borders to evade the arm of justice, operations like Endgame — coordinated across multiple jurisdictions — demonstrate that this evasion tactic is increasingly untenable.
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