FBI successfully blocks hacker VPN service

The FBI has succeeded in blocking three domains and VPNs used by cybercriminals.

The FBI is said to have been working with German, French, Swiss and Dutch law enforcement agencies under the name of Operation Nova. Three VPNs blocked (insorg.org, safe-inet.com, safe-inet.net) have been active for over 10 years. It is advertised on cybercrime bulletins on the back of Russian and English and offers a VPN from $1.3 per day to $190 per year. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, an investigation found that the domain was being used for spear phishing and account hijacking through ransomware attacks.

These are extremely high anonymous servers called bulletproof hosting, and are easily capable of concealing crime or illegal activities. It is characterized by being able to avoid the request for deletion by skillfully switching the client IP address even when an abuse claim comes in, or to avoid legal pursuits and seizure without saving logs.

Currently, if you go to these three domains, a banner is displayed stating that the domain was confiscated due to Operation Nova. This time, the operation was successful in cooperation with organizations around the world by cybercrime experts, but the European criminal police agency Europol has not yet announced the crimes of the incident. In the future, it will analyze data collected from servers blocked in five European countries to verify user identity. Related information can be found here .