Global law enforcement agencies have shut down three virtual private network (VPN) services built to help criminals launch ransomware campaigns, phishing attacks, and other illicit activity.
“Operation Nova” was led by the German Reutlingen Police Headquarters, Europol, the FBI, and other agencies around the world. Together, they conducted a coordinated takedown of servers in at least five different countries in addition to seizing domains providing “bulletproof hosting.”
Their investigation revealed three domains (insorg.org, safe-inet.com, and safe-inet.net) offered these bulletproof hosting services, which are online services provided by an organization and designed to offer Web hosting or VPN services for criminal activity. Many of these services are advertised on forums where criminals discuss their activity, according to officials.
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