It seems the cybercriminals are using VPNs to hide their identity to carry out illicit operations. It’s an alarming situation for VPN providers that are becoming victims of such acts.
Recently, a bulletproof service got shut down for allegedly supporting cybercriminals for keeping their identity secret. FBI and Europol took striking action and shut down ‘Safe-Inet,’ a well-known VPN service that kept its customer’s identities under cover.
Safe-Inet was held accountable for supporting some of the biggest cybercriminals that kept hundreds of companies captive. As per the , the VPN provider concealed logs and kept the traffic moving through a series of VPN connections.