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How Cybercrime Empires Are Built

ID: dd448230-19a0-5422-a24f-bdd421d4dd6f

STIX ID: report--dd448230-19a0-5422-a24f-bdd421d4dd6f

Feed Name: Dark Reading

Threat Score
40/100

Date Published: 2024-06-13

Date Updated: 2026-04-21

Author: Sean M. McNee

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This report outlines how modern cybercriminal groups operate as commercialized enterprises—using spam, phishing kits, and malware storefronts—to scale profitably, using the Manipulaters and high-profile takedowns of LockBit and ALPHV/BlackCat as examples; it also discusses recent legal changes enabling international law enforcement takedowns and stresses industry–law enforcement cooperation and infrastructure tracking to prevent criminal empires.

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