⚠JUST IN: Dutch FIOD (Financial crime investigations) seized 800 servers from a bulletproof hosting provider

On May 22, FIOD announced that successful raids involving a server hosting provider "Stark Industries" were carried out.

Stark Industries is a web hosting company, already known within federal agencies for upholding criminal infrastructure and enabling cybercrime/cyberattacks. Stark Industries has been linked to Russian state-sponsored campaigns, by providing financial resources and their hosting infrastructure. These actions led them being sanctioned by the United Kingdom last May, which prompted them to move operations to a Dutch based company.

Stark Industries has also partnered in the past with a Russian hacktivist group, giving them access to much-needed resources, to launch massive DDoS campaigns that targeted major corporations.

FIOD stated that, in their raids, that were conducted in the Netherlands, precisely in Schiphol-Rijk and Dronten, they were able to seize the following: 800 servers, several other devices and records. Two arrests were made, a 57 year old suspect, who led the company and a 39 year old, who owns a company that provided internet services to Stark Industries.

@arch