International agency release
International action against 'Gameover Zeus' botnet and 'CryptoLocker' ransomware
Europol, June 2, 2014. Europol's European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) acting as coordinator/supporter of the 30 May 2014 multi-national action against the Gameover Zeus botnet and CryptoLocker, in an operation led by the FBI..
- Source type
- International agency release
- Published
- June 2, 2014
- Research grade
- P2
- Used in entries
- 1
Bibliographic record
- Publisher
- Europol
- Published
- June 2, 2014
- Source type
- International agency release
- Research grade
- Source grade P2
- Language
- English
- Official record
- Official publication
- What it supports
- Europol's European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) acting as coordinator/supporter of the 30 May 2014 multi-national action against the Gameover Zeus botnet and CryptoLocker, in an operation led by the FBI.
- Dataset id
- src_ec3_gameover_zeus_2014
Research notes
- Operation date is Friday 30 May 2014; the Europol release was published 2 June 2014 (CMS 'published' timestamp 1401696000). Do not use 30 May as the publication date.
- Read via the Europol CMS API: https://www.europol.europa.eu/cms/api/node?url=/media-press/newsroom/news/international-action-against-gameover-zeus-botnet-and-cryptolocker-ransomware
- Tagged entity on the release: European Cybercrime Centre (EC3); articleType 'Press Release'.
How this source is used
Cited 1 time across 1 record type.
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Organization roles
1 citation
Cited for an organization's recorded role in a takedown.
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European Cybercrime CentrePrimary source
Supporting, Operation Tovar