Security News > 2021 > July > Authorities Take Down DoubleVPN Service for Aiding Cybercriminals
Law enforcement agencies in Europe, the US, and Canada on Tuesday announced the takedown of DoubleVPN, a virtual private network service that allegedly helped cybercriminals conduct nefarious activities.
As part of the takedown operation, servers across the world were seized to ensure the disruption of the DoubleVPN service.
"On 29th of June 2021, law enforcement took down DoubleVPN. Law enforcement gained access to the servers of DoubleVPN and seized personal information, logs and statistics kept by DoubleVPN about all of its customers. DoubleVPN's owners failed to provide the services they promised," the splash page reads.
Advertised on underground cybercrime forums for both Russian and English speakers, the service was used by ransomware operators and phishing fraudsters to hide their real location and identity.
The service claimed to provide clients with a high level of anonymity, through single, double, triple and even quadruple VPN-connections.
The service was taken down as part of an operation led by the Dutch National Police and coordinated by Europol and Eurojust.