Bulletproof Host Virtualine Loses Its Domain to FBI Seizure
The FBI has seized virtualine.net, the domain of a Russian-speaking bulletproof hosting services provider associated with various cybercriminal operations.
According to court documents, Virtualine, also known as Secury, Massgod, Spamhouse, Lanedo, and Omegatech, has been hosting customers’ illicit services and helped them evade law enforcement takedown attempts.
In posts on cybercrime forums, Virtualine promoted support for various types of cybercriminal activity, including phishing, spam, carding, and more; advertised its ability to move customer services to unaffiliated infrastructure; and claimed it intentionally ignored abuse.
It also allowed users to post and sell explicit images and videos of minors and adults, and supported at least one customer that offered a hack-for-hire service aimed at stealing sexually explicit content from online accounts.
Despite receiving numerous takedown requests from law enforcement agencies in several countries, Virtualine continued to aid the customer and even helped them create a new website for uploading the illicit content....
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