On Feb. 28, multiple police forces carried out a coordinated action against two suspected members of the cybercrime gang behind the DoppelPaymer ransomware.

These latest raids, revealed on March 6 by Europol, follow a series of other law enforcement campaigns against prominent ransomware groups in recent years. “We’ve seen an increase in the velocity of law enforcement and government action against actors that are involved in ransomware or in the supporting ecosystem,” Jeremy Kennelly, lead analyst in financial crime analysis for Mandiant, tells Dark Reading. “And that does, in aggregate, seem to be causing a bit of a chilling effect.”