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International authorities and a coalition of private technology companies, including Microsoft, have disrupted a cybercrime "assembly line" responsible for collecting millions of stolen login credentials and more than $47 million in ransomware payments and other fraudulent proceeds.
The coordinated takedown struck simultaneously at two separate but intertwined criminal platforms — Amadey and StealC — after Microsoft's AI-assisted analysis revealed that the tools shared critical underlying infrastructure.
The Two Weapons at the Core of the Operation Amadey is a malware-as-a-service platform that has been active in the wild since at least 2018.
It functions as a delivery mechanism: compromising target devices and dropping customized malicious payloads used in ransomware attacks and other scams.
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