The Hacker News - Global Police Operation Shuts Down 600 Cybercrime Servers Linked to Cobalt Strike

A coordinated law enforcement operation codenamed MORPHEUS has felled close to 600 servers that were used by cybercriminal groups and were part of an attack infrastructure associated with the Cobalt Strike.  The crackdown targeted older, unlicensed versions of the Cobalt Strike red teaming framework between June 24 and 28, according to Europol. Of the 690 IP addresses that were flagged to

from The Hacker News https://thehackernews.com/2024/07/global-police-operation-shuts-down-600.html

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