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Operation- Endgame ^new^ Review

Cybercriminals will pivot to "Living off the Land" (LotL) binaries or new, proprietary loaders written in Rust or Nim (languages harder to reverse engineer). We will likely see a "Trickbot 2.0" emerge.

Ransomware is a business. Affiliates buy access to networks. Without loaders like IcedID or Pikabot, affiliates cannot get in . raised the cost of entry. It forced ransomware groups to revert to less efficient methods (like brute-forcing RDP or using compromised USB drives). This "friction" saves responders time. Operation- Endgame