A 15-year-old cybercrime anonymity service called VIP72, in the past, allowed a large number of cybercriminals to cover up their actual location by routing traffic via dozens of hacked computers seeded with malware – suddenly went offline for a period of two weeks and has not shown any signs of return. Similar to other proxy networks advertised on the darknet and other cybercrime forums, VIP72 also routed its clients' traffic via systems that have been infected by malware. Employing the malicious service, users could choose network nodes in almost any of the countries to relay their traffic as they conceal themselves behind some unsuspecting user's URL. Over the past few days, the darknet has been flooded with "R.I.P" texts for the malware proxy network, VIP72 that went dark without any prior notice. Initially, the authors of VIP62 told their customers that they will be back online shortly, indicating it's a maintenance issue that's restricting their operations. “Sorry for the inconvenience but we're performing some maintenance at the moment. We'll be back online shortly!”, read a notice titled “We'll be back soon!” It was updated to read, “Socks client will be unavailable within next 5 (FIVE) days for planned upgrades. We will resume normal work of socks client till the end of this week. All active subscriptions will have +8 days to existed paid period.” “—We only work on web vip72.com and sellvip72.com/en. Do not access fraudulent websites on google search e.g: vip72.cx, .us etc...”, the notice further read in 'red' letter font. Originally set up in 2006, VIP72, had a long run assisting malicious actors in concealing their real location via a well-founded proxy service. Basically, the proxying se ..
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