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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.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Mojibake Tengu on Tuesday October 01 2019, @07:30AM (5 children)
This news is already going mainstream, SN is rather slow about it. But strangely, this report is in contradiction with other historical mainstream news. This said 2016 attack on DT was presented to public as related to Mirai botnet, scaled as a "state actor" and attributed to Russia by a worldwide smearing campaign.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 01 2019, @08:22AM (1 child)
BulletProof is the name of a legitimate Australian hosting company. Do not associate a legitimate company name with this criminal who has no legal association with the name "bulletproof".
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 01 2019, @09:30AM
Hahahaaha.... no one ever used the name "bulletproof" before? Might as well call it "Cloud" and claim anything..
https://bpw.sc/ [bpw.sc]
https://bulletproofhosting.org/ [bulletproofhosting.org]
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Bulletproof%20hosting [urbandictionary.com]
(Score: 3, Funny) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday October 01 2019, @11:58AM (1 child)
When you set up shop in an ex military bunker, you'd better expect unusually high levels of scrutiny from John Law (or, in this case Herr Mann).
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 01 2019, @02:04PM
Except this DC had been operating for several years now, and it should have been easy to trace supposed earlier hacking activity back to this site. With Germany's vaunted Internet surveillance and chain of hosting bills, the persons responsible and the physical endpoint could have been found out long ago.
Then again I read elsewhere that military property transfers to civilian hands usually take place with a healthy dose of connections, so maybe they had friends in high places protecting them.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Tuesday October 01 2019, @02:44PM
We are not competing with other news sources. We try to pick stories that will generate interesting discussions and we do not care about getting news out promptly. The majority of our output is at least 1 day old, and sometimes considerably longer than that.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday October 01 2019, @09:04AM (2 children)
The original source on Associated Press [apnews.com]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 01 2019, @09:32AM (1 child)
already linked in the summary
(Score: 3, Funny) by DannyB on Tuesday October 01 2019, @01:33PM
It's already difficulter enough to read the headline. You expect me to read the article summary too? Next you'll think I should read articles. What's the world coming two?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 01 2019, @07:21PM
"weed, synthetic drugs, and hacking tools"
so they did nothing wrong then? and the real criminals are stealing from small business owners again? fucking pigs.