Five people have been detained and servers have been seized after police shut down the Lolek bulletproof hosting firm for allegedly supporting Netwalker ransomware attacks and other illegal operations, according to BleepingComputer.
In a statement, Europol said that the Central Cybercrime Bureau of Poland under the direction of the Regional Prosecutor's Office in Katowice took legal action this week against LolekHosted.net, a secure hosting platform used by criminals to launch worldwide cyberattacks.
A statement from the U.S. Department of Justice, however, provides more information about the police investigation and states that a Polish national named Artur Karol Grabowski was arrested yesterday for running LolekHosted.
"LolekHosted clients used its services to execute approximately 50 NetWalker ransomware attacks on victims located all over the world, including in the Middle District of Florida," the DOJ said in a statement.
FLUXROOT exploited Google Cloud container URLs to establish phishing pages distributing the Grandoreiro banking trojan, which proceeded to exfiltrate credentials from widely used LatAm online payments platform Mercado Pago.
Illicit cyber activities conducted by Chinese cybercrime syndicate Vigorish Viper involving a sophisticated technology suite have been supported by the group's illegal betting platforms advertised by sports teams, including European football clubs and Indian cricket and kabaddi teams.
Aside from the disruption of DigitalStress' website, the law enforcement sting — which also involved the FBI and the Police Service of Northern Ireland — also resulted in the arrest of a suspected administrator, according to the UK's NCA.