Police raid ‘bulletproof’ hosting company run out of former NATO bunker

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge

German officials have shut down a criminal web hosting service that was operating out of a former NATO bunker, according to a report from The Associated Press.

According to the report, investigators tracked down a Dutch man who bought the bunker, based in western Germany, in 2013. The man had allegedly converted the bunker into a so-called “bulletproof” web hosting service, which was then used by illicit marketplaces for weed, synthetic drugs, and hacking tools. Investigators also reportedly linked the hosting service to a botnet attack on Deutsche Telekom.

The AP reports that seven people were arrested at a restaurant near Frankfurt in connection with the investigation, which also included raids...

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source https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/27/20886971/german-nato-bunker-bulletproof-hosting-raid

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