Dutch police seizes 250 servers used by “bulletproof hosting” service www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu…
The police in the Netherlands have seized around 250 physical servers powering a bulletproof hosting service in the country used exclusively by cybercriminals for providing complete anonymity. Politie, the police force in the Netherlands, did not name the service but said that it has been used for illicit activities since 2022, and has emerged in more than 80 cybercrime investigations, both domestic and abroad.
Bulletproof hosting providers are companies that intentionally ignore abuse reports and refuse to comply with content takedowns requests from law enforcement while protecting their customers by not enforcing Know Your Customer policies. Cybercriminals that typically use them are ransomware operators, malware distributors, phishing actors, and spammers, as well as money laundering services that get to remain anonymous by paying in difficult-to-trace cryptocurrency.
