Kratos phishing-as-a-service kit loses its battle with international law enforcement

German authorities say they have neutralized the main infrastructure supporting the Kratos phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) kit following an operation supported by the US and Indonesia. Officers from Frankfurt am Main's Central Office for Combating Internet Crime (ZIT) and the Federal Criminal Police (BKA) described Kratos as one …

[IGotOut]

Is that right?

"while the operation behind the kit allegedly earned more than €300,000 ($342,000) since 2024."

Given this was running hundreds of servers, had thousands of clients, and ran 15,000 campaigns a month, that figure seems pretty damn low to me.

[Yet Another Anonymous coward]

Re: Is that right?

Would have done better inventing their own crypto-token/gambling app/commemorative collectable plates and using this to run ads for it.

Eventually they could have made enough to build their own monitors then gone into the malware business for $$$$$$$