{"id":38837,"date":"2020-12-22T12:55:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T12:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/c515b8f5-fae8-4a00-bb54-4fa4ff6fc4af"},"modified":"2020-12-22T12:55:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T12:55:00","slug":"law-enforcement-take-down-three-bulletproof-vpn-providers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/law-enforcement-take-down-three-bulletproof-vpn-providers\/","title":{"rendered":"Law enforcement take down three bulletproof VPN providers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Law enforcement agencies from the US, Germany, France, Switzerland, and the Netherlands have seized this week the web domains and server infrastructure of three VPN services that provided a safe haven for cybercriminals to attack their victims.<\/p>\n

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The three services were active at insorg.org<\/strong> [2014 snapshot<\/a>], safe-inet.com<\/strong> [2013 snapshot<\/a>], and safe-inet.net<\/strong> before the domains were seized and replaced with law enforcement banners on Monday.<\/p>\n

The services have been active for more than a decade, are believed to be operated by the same individual\/group, and have been heavily advertised on both Russian and English-speaking underground cybercrime forums, where they were sold for prices ranging from $1.3\/day to $190\/year.<\/p>\n

According to the US Department of Justice<\/a> and Europol<\/a>, the three companies’ servers were often used to mask the real identities of ransomware gangs, web skimmer (Magecart) groups, online phishers, and hackers involved in account takeovers, allowing them to operate from behind a proxy network up to five layers deep.<\/p>\n

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