Cybercrime has made news time and time again for the increase in attacks, the new heights of sophistication, and, of course, the increasing number of large enterprises that have been hit.
It’s not all bad news, however.
Between 10 and 13 of November 2025, Europol’s Operation Endgame successfully targeted some of the biggest infostealers in the game, Rhadamanthys, the Remote Access Trojan VenomRAT, and the botnet Elysium, and took down over 1000 servers and arrested three in Greece.
It’s a huge win for businesses, but owners aren’t out of hot water yet. Nor, really, will they ever be. With cybercrime and scams essentially replacing old essentials like farming, it’s imperative that businesses work around the clock to improve their own security.
Start First By Investigating
The first step is to always make sure that your system hasn’t been infected, and that you, nor your employees, were involved in any breach. For example, while Europol has dismantled a huge threat, over 100,000 crypto wallets have been breached, meaning that all of those accounts are still at grave risk.
That’s why you need to regularly run investigations for internal threats and viruses on your system, and to see if any of your employees’ data has been involved in a breach. If they have, notify and respond ASAP.
Reduce False Positives and Streamline Alerts
Your security team is your last defense against threats. With that in mind, the last thing you want is for them to be bogged down with endless non-actionable alerts that dampen their response times and can even cause burnout.
The good news is that there are simple solutions, like the managed detection and response service from Red Canary, which uses advanced filtering and alert refinement to reduce false positives and non-actionable alerts. In exchange, your team is only given the real concerns, giving them the headspace to address every threat like the danger it is.
Ramp Up Your Security Measures with Continual Refinement
There are so many ways you can continue to improve and refine your security measures. Have a portion of your security team go through and ensure that all tools are fully optimized with security in mind, run regular incident tests, and use all that data to create and refine response protocols so that breaches can be shut down fast.
Regularly Lock Down Identity Access
Every employee needs a unique ID and password. Moreover, this password must be entirely randomized, and even then, changed on a semi-regular basis. The ID and password should not be used anywhere else.
Even then, each user should be locked, so that they can only access the tools, accounts, and data they need to do their jobs. This is how you will immediately shut down any internal attacks from so-called enterprising thieves, and also limit breaches coming in from outside threats.
Ramp Up Your Endpoint and Cloud Protection
Every incoming connection on your system is at risk, especially if those devices come in from the outside (in other words, personal devices or even take-home work tools). While training can help reduce risks, it’s always important to invest in ever-more sophisticated endpoint and cloud security. For best results, consider choosing a single security stack, for example, Microsoft’s, to bundle in endpoint, cloud, and identity security all under one unified system.