Customers warned that international law enforcement continues to investigate who might have used seized services for past attacks
The FBI, working with law enforcement agencies across Europe, have seized three web domains and the server infrastructure used by a VPN service to allegedly help cybercriminals compromise networks around the world, and evade detect by police.
The VPN service, offered via websites at safe-inet.net, safe-inet.com, and insorg.org, have operated for more than ten years, and was advertised on Russian and English-language cybercrime forums for prices ranging from US $1.30 per day to $190 for a full year’s use.
According to a statement by the US Department of Justice, services offered by the websites were designed to facilitate uninterrupted criminal activities online, allowing hackers to operate while evading detection by law enforcement.
As part of this, according to the United States authorities, the so-called “bulletproof” services might ignore abuse complaints made by their customer’s victims, or make up excuses, and might even move a criminal customer’s accounts and/or data from one system to another to help them evade detection.
“By providing these services, the bulletproof hosts knowingly support the criminal activities of their clients and become co-conspirators in criminal schemes,” said the Department of Justice.
Those schemes involved working with criminals responsible for ransomware, spearphishing, and other attacks.
In an operation dubbed “Operation Nova”, Europol, the FBI, and law enforcement agencies from Germany, Switzerland, and France, have now seized the websites’ domains, replacing their homepages with a banner.
A message on the seized sites warns past users that the investigation into the site’s operators and ..
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