International agency release
World's most dangerous malware EMOTET disrupted through global action
Europol, January 27, 2021. Infrastructure takeover, participating authorities, Ukrainian arrests, infection scale.
- Source type
- International agency release
- Published
- January 27, 2021
- Research grade
- P2
- Used in entries
- 8
Bibliographic record
- Publisher
- Europol
- Published
- January 27, 2021
- Source type
- International agency release
- Research grade
- Source grade P2
- Language
- English
- Official record
- Official publication
- Address
- No address recorded for this source. Publisher, title, and date are given so it can be retrieved from the publisher.
- What it supports
- Infrastructure takeover, participating authorities, Ukrainian arrests, infection scale
- Dataset id
- src_europol_emotet_2021
Research notes
- URL not re-verified in this pass.
How this source is used
Cited 8 times across 3 record types.
The role on each citation records what the source was relied on for. A primary source establishes the fact, a supporting source corroborates it, technical evidence describes the infrastructure, and a later outcome records what happened afterwards.
Sources were reviewed to a research cutoff of August 20, 2026. Addresses recorded after that date are not reflected here.
Cited by
Takedown records
1 citation
Cited on the takedown record itself.
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Operation LadybirdPrimary source
Malware and botnets, January 2021
Organization roles
5 citations
Cited for an organization's recorded role in a takedown.
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European Union Agency for Law Enforcement CooperationPrimary source
Coordinator, Operation Ladybird
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Politie (Netherlands National Police)Primary source
Co-lead, Operation Ladybird
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BundeskriminalamtPrimary source
Co-lead, Operation Ladybird
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Cyberpolice Department of the National Police of UkrainePrimary source
Arresting, Operation Ladybird
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European Union Agency for Criminal Justice CooperationPrimary source
Judicial cooperation, Operation Ladybird
Infrastructure
2 citations
Cited for infrastructure recorded as acted on.
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approximately 700 command and control serversPrimary source
Command and control servers taken over, Operation Ladybird
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approximately 1,600,000 malware installationsPrimary source
Malware installations remediated, Operation Ladybird