800 Servers Seized: Dutch Raid Shuts Down Russian Cyber-Front Hostings
When your 'offshore secure hosting' is actually just a poorly disguised front for Russian state hackers, getting raided by Dutch special agents is basically a scheduled feature, not a bug. Grab some popcorn, folks.
The sudden massive blackout of THE.Hosting, UFO.Hosting, and GEO.Hosting turned out to be a coordinated law enforcement operation. The Dutch Fiscal Information and Investigation Service (FIOD) arrested two suspects and confiscated over 800 servers in data centers across Dronten and Schiphol-Rijk.
According to European authorities, the targeted infrastructure was built just two weeks before the invasion of Ukraine. When the notorious Stark Industries Solutions fell under EU sanctions for fueling Russian cyber warfare, its operators simply shuffled their digital assets to newly minted Dutch shell companies like WorkTitans B.V. and MIRhosting to keep the botnets humming under a fresh coat of legal paint.
Now, clients of these services are staring at dead VPS panels and unresponsive support tickets. While some servers falsely show as active, databases are reportedly lost forever, and refund requests are getting ghosted.
Nothing screams high-end cyber security quite like having the physical hard drives containing your legitimate business blog carried out of a Dutch data center in plastic evidence bags because your hosting provider was moonlighting as a Kremlin-backed cyber-weapon.
Source: BleepingComputer
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