Collaborate Disseminate
By Deeba Ahmed
US, Canada, and European authorities took part in the operation which ended up seizing cybercriminals’ access to and infrastructure of DoubleVPN.
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A security tool that hackers used to disguise their ransomware attacks, email scams and other nefarious activity is offline following a global law enforcement action. Servers and web domains belonging to DoubleVPN, a virtual private network (VPN), were seized during an investigation by the Dutch National Police, the FBI, the U.K.’s National Crime Agency and Europol, authorities said Wednesday. Accused cybercriminals advertised DoubleVPN throughout Russian and English-speaking hacker markets as a means of helping customers hide their location and internet traffic from police for prices as low as $25. “Law enforcement gained access to the servers of DoubleVPN and seized personal information, logs and statistics kept by DoubleVPN about all of its customers,” a seizure notice on the site advised. “DoubleVPN’s owners failed to provide the services they promised.” The police announcement did not identify the specific ransomware gangs that allegedly used DoubleVPN. Internet users throughout the world rely on […]
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