Takedown Index

Takedown	Date	Category	Lead organization	Jurisdiction	Status Derived from the recorded end date. A date in the past reads Completed, no date reads Ongoing. The dataset carries no separate status column.
Operation Endgame wave 3 ID: td_2025_endgame_w3	Nov 10, 2025	Multi threat campaign	Not established	International	Completed
Operation Endgame wave 2 ID: td_2025_endgame_w2	May 19, 2025	Multi threat campaign	BKA	International	Completed
BreachForums portal seizure (2025) ID: td_2025_breachforums	Jan 1, 2025	Fraud and stolen data	Not established	International	Ongoing
Operation PowerOFF December 2024 wave ID: td_2024_poweroff_dec	Dec 1, 2024	DDoS for hire	Not established	International	Completed
Raptor Train botnet disruption ID: td_2024_raptor_train	Sep 1, 2024	State sponsored	FBI	International	Completed
Operation Endgame wave 1 ID: td_2024_endgame_w1	May 27, 2024	Multi threat campaign	French Gendarmerie, BKA, and Dutch National Police	International	Completed
Operation Cronos wave 1 ID: td_2024_cronos_w1	Feb 19, 2024	Ransomware	NCA and FBI	International	Completed
Operation Duck Hunt ID: td_2023_qakbot	Aug 25, 2023	Malware and botnets	FBI	International	Completed
Sky ECC interception and action day ID: td_2021_sky_ecc	Feb 1, 2021	Criminal communications	Belgian Federal Police and Dutch National Police	International	Completed
Operation Ladybird ID: td_2021_emotet	Jan 26, 2021	Malware and botnets	Dutch National Police and BKA	International	Completed
EncroChat interception and shutdown ID: td_2020_encrochat	Apr 1, 2020	Criminal communications	French Gendarmerie and Dutch National Police	International	Completed
Operation Onymous ID: td_2014_operation_onymous	Nov 5, 2014	Darknet market	FBI	International	Completed

Operation Endgame

Rhadamanthys, VenomRAT, Elysium botnet Multi threat campaign

Lead: Not established
Result: More than 1,000 servers disrupted; approximately 20 domains seized; access to several hundred thousand infected machines removed from operators.
Accountability: 1 apprehended
Return status: Not established in the public record

Operation Endgame

DanaBot, Bumblebee, Lactrodectus, Qakbot, HijackLoader, Trickbot, Warmcookie Multi threat campaign

Lead: BKA
Result: Approximately 300 servers disrupted worldwide; roughly 650 domains neutralized; approximately 3.5 million EUR in cryptocurrency seized during the wave.
Accountability: 3 charged and 1 publicly wanted
Return status: Not established in the public record

BreachForums portal seizure (2025)

BreachForums (further reconstituted) Fraud and stolen data

Lead: Not established
Result: Portal infrastructure seized and replaced with a law-enforcement notice.
Accountability: No individual outcomes recorded
Return status: Not established in the public record

Operation PowerOFF

27 booter and stresser platforms DDoS for hire

Lead: Not established
Result: 27 platforms taken offline and domains seized.
Accountability: 3 apprehended
Return status: Not established in the public record

Raptor Train botnet disruption

Raptor Train State sponsored

Lead: FBI
Result: Control of the botnet infrastructure seized; malware disabled on compromised devices; operators' attempt to migrate the botnet was countered.
Accountability: No individual outcomes recorded
Return status: Not established in the public record

Operation Endgame

IcedID, SystemBC, Pikabot, Smokeloader, Bumblebee, Trickbot Multi threat campaign

Lead: French Gendarmerie, BKA, and Dutch National Police
Result: More than 100 servers disrupted or taken down; more than 2,000 domains brought under law-enforcement control; 16 location searches.
Accountability: 8 charged, 4 apprehended, and 8 publicly wanted
Return status: Not established in the public record

Operation Cronos

LockBit Ransomware

Lead: NCA and FBI
Result: 34 servers seized across eight countries; source code and affiliate data obtained; more than 1,000 decryption keys recovered; more than 200 cryptocurrency wallets frozen; approximately 14,000 rogue accounts closed; leak site taken over and operated by law enforcement.
Accountability: 4 charged, 3 apprehended, 2 convicted, and 3 publicly wanted
Return status: Returned under the same operators

Operation Duck Hunt

Qakbot Malware and botnets

Lead: FBI
Result: Botnet traffic redirected to FBI infrastructure; uninstaller delivered to approximately 700,000 infected computers; 52 servers seized; approximately 8.6 million USD in cryptocurrency seized.
Accountability: No individual outcomes recorded
Return status: Returned under the same operators

Sky ECC interception and action day

Sky ECC Criminal communications

Lead: Belgian Federal Police and Dutch National Police
Result: Encrypted traffic decrypted and monitored; infrastructure disrupted; large-scale searches and seizures on the action day.
Accountability: 48 apprehended
Return status: Not established in the public record

Operation Ladybird

Emotet Malware and botnets

Lead: Dutch National Police and BKA
Result: Roughly 700 command-and-control servers taken over; infected machines redirected to law-enforcement infrastructure; a court-authorized uninstall module was delivered and triggered on 2021-04-25.
Accountability: 2 apprehended
Return status: Returned on replacement infrastructure

EncroChat interception and shutdown

EncroChat Criminal communications

Lead: French Gendarmerie and Dutch National Police
Result: Server infrastructure in France compromised by a law-enforcement implant; more than 100 million messages intercepted; network shut down and users warned by the operator.
Accountability: No individual outcomes recorded
Return status: Later activity recorded, link to the original not established

Operation Onymous

Silk Road 2.0 and additional Tor marketplaces Darknet market

Lead: FBI
Result: Silk Road 2.0 hidden service seized; dozens of additional onion services seized or disabled; servers seized across multiple countries.
Accountability: 1 charged and 1 apprehended
Return status: Not established in the public record

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