The blustery news coming out from the law enforcement agencies, a joint operation conducted by United States, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, and France agencies to take down and seized the Safe-Inet and Ins.org VPN and proxy services that used to increases the criminal activity across the world. The three VPN bulletproof domains associated with insorg.org, safe-inent.com, and safe-inet.net were banned by the German Reutlingen Police Headquarters, Europol law enforcement, and by the FBI.
Now the question may strike on your mind why these organizations took a huge step and banned these VPN service providers. Read the upcoming section to know about this in detail.
Why Law Enforcement Agencies Banned these VPN Providers?
The VPN Safe-Inet is used by foremost cybercriminals to carry out malicious activities that include ransomware, malware, skimming, phishing, and account takeover attacks. After the investigation conducted by German Police, Europol and other law enforcement agencies revealed that these three domains – insorg.org, safe-inet.com, safe-inet.net provided the BPH services to website visitors.
According to the agencies, BPH stands for Bullet Proof Hosting service, it is an online-based service provided to an individual or the organization that was intentionally manufactured for web hosting and VPN services to increase criminal activities.
These VPN providers assist their customers by facilitating uninterrupted online criminal activities and these activities are not able to track by the law enforcement agencies. These bulletproof companies permit the users to move customer’s accounts data from one IP address to another and these VPN services don’t maintain any logs, therefore these activities are not traceable by any agencies.
These VPN services providers are responsible for ransomware, malware attacks, E-skimming breaches, phishing, and other account takeover related stuff.
Although these services support the Russian and English language and are used by cyber hackers to compromise the networks across the world by hiding the locations of their operational infrastructure… After the SolarWinds SunBurst Backdoor attack, all the agencies are active and investigate all the illegal activities that happened across the world.
These VPN service providers; insorg.org, safe-inet.com, safe-inet.net are in the custody of the FBI and other law enforcement agencies and these are banned until this investigation is completed.
The users of these providers will now find a seizure banner that indicated that these VPN providers are seized by the FBI.
This is a coordinated effort that was led by the German Reutlingen Police Headquarters including the Europol, the FBI, and many other law enforcement agencies.
Services Provided by Safe-Inet and InSorgVPN
The Insorg VPN service provides offers 4069-bit encryption and having 21 servers established in 21 countries. Insorg VPN advertised on many cybercriminal forums and published one ad from 2019 for the Russian audience to increase the ransomware attack.
Whereas Safe-Inet is running for the past 11 years, and they are advertising the black hat activities as you can read on the safe-inet webpage listed below.
Along with that, these service providers give a 3-day money-back guarantee and 24*7 live support to the customers. The pricing charged by these providers is varied between &1.3 per day to $190 per year. They give 39 servers and 5 layers of anonymous VPN connections to the users.
On the other hand, the president of Reutlingen Police says that;
“The investigation is started by our cybercrime experts, in the end we got the result that these VPN providers are connected by criminal’s activities. We want to thanks our international cooperation’s and partners.”
The Head of Europol’s said that;
“According to Europol police head, the criminals can run but they cannot hide from law enforcement, they also proved the strong relationship between the investigators involved.”
The investigation is going on and no charges were announced against any individuals who are working behind these VPN services.
