TrickBot Endgame Seizure Register

PROBLEM: TrickBot survived a takedown attempt in late 2020 and kept running. Its developers were convicted in U.S. federal court — Alla Witte in June 2023, Vladimir Dunaev in January 2024 — and seven members were jointly sanctioned by the U.S. and UK in February 2023. Then, on May 27–29, 2024, Europol's Operation Endgame — the largest-ever operation against botnets — shut down TrickBot's infrastructure along with five other dropper families: more than 100 servers dismantled, more than 2,000 domains seized, four arrests. The pattern is clear: convictions plus coordinated seizure, repeated until the infrastructure stays down. But each operation's seizures, arrests, and asset freezes are recorded separately, in different countries' files, so no single register shows whether a botnet family is actually finished.

SOLUTION: A TrickBot Endgame seizure register: every infrastructure seizure logged with its operation, its server and domain counts, its arrests, its asset freezes, and its follow-up actions — so a botnet family's death is measured in seizures, not assumed from one press release.

EVIDENCE BASIS: DOCUMENTED — Witte sentence June 2023 (2 years 8 months); Dunaev sentence Jan 2024 (5 years 4 months); U.S./UK sanctions Feb 2023 (7 members); Operation Endgame, May 27–29, 2024 (100+ servers, 2,000+ domains, 4 arrests, 16 searches; led by France, Germany, Netherlands). Sources: U.S. DOJ; Europol, May 30, 2024; SecurityWeek, May 30, 2024.