| Title | Police Raid "Bulletproof" Hosting Company Run Out of Former NATO Bunker | |
| Date | Tuesday October 01 2019, @06:58AM | |
| Author | Fnord666 | |
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| from the bunker-down dept. | ||
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Police raid "bulletproof" hosting company run out of former NATO bunker
German officials have shut down a criminal web hosting service that was operating out of a former NATO bunker, according to a report from The Associated Press.
According to the report, investigators tracked down a Dutch man who bought the bunker, based in western Germany, in 2013. The man had allegedly converted the bunker into a so-called "bulletproof" web hosting service, which was then used by illicit marketplaces for weed, synthetic drugs, and hacking tools. Investigators also reportedly linked the hosting service to a botnet attack on Deutsche Telekom.
The AP reports that seven people were arrested at a restaurant near Frankfurt in connection with the investigation, which also included raids that stretched across the Netherlands, Poland, and Luxembourg. Another six people are under investigation, according to the report, and authorities believe all of them are accessories to crimes related to drug distribution and counterfeiting money.
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