RedLine was marketed on Russian-language cybercriminal boards for $150 for the lite model, $200 for the professional model and $100/month as a subscription, making it accessible to a variety of cybercriminals. Its options embrace stealing info saved in browsers resembling electronic mail addresses, authentication cookies, passwords, bank cards and different autocomplete kind information that might embrace private info.
Operation concerned US, UK, Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal, and Australia
The malware additionally steals cryptocurrency wallets and collects details about the contaminated machine resembling location, {hardware} and put in software program. The META infostealer is a model of RedLine that appeared in 2022.
“To take down the transnational malware, Eurojust coordinated cooperation between authorities from the Netherlands, the US, Belgium, Portugal, the UK, and Australia,” Eurojust stated in a press launch. “By way of Eurojust, authorities had been capable of shortly change info and coordinate actions to take down the infostealers.”