Risky Bulletin: Law enforcement agencies and security firms take down Amadey and StealerC

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An Europol operation aimed at taking down cybercrime operations has added two new victims to its trophy wall in the Amadey malware loader and the StealC infostealer operation. (Technically three, but we already covered the SocGolish botnet takedown last week, so we're gonna pretend it's two.)

The takedown included seven law enforcement agencies (from Europol, Canada, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, the UK, and the US) and six…