Days after several governments announced sanctions against the Zservers bulletproof hosting service, Dutch police took 127 servers associated with the service offline.
The US, UK and Australia on February 11 announced sanctions against the Russia-based hosting service and two Russian nationals who allegedly operate it.
Similar to other bulletproof hosting services, Zservers (XHost) offered its services to cybercriminals, guaranteeing that their identity would remain protected against law enforcement and offering them the possibility to pay anonymously through cryptocurrencies.
In the case of Zservers, the service was used by major cybercrime groups such as Conti and LockBit, according to Dutch Police, which announced on February 13 that it had physically taken offline 127 servers located at a data center in Amsterdam.
Authorities started looking into Zservers one year ago. The seized devices hosted websites, hacking tools and data stolen from victims.
The data stored on these servers is being analyzed by investigators. Dutch police pointed out that no arrests have been made in this case.
Cybercriminal services are often targeted for takedown by law enforcement, but bringing their operators to justice is in many cases not an easy task, even if they have been identified.
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