Security News > 2023 > November > Review: Cyberbunker: The Criminal Underworld

The 64-year-old Dutchman, who is currently serving a prison sentence in Germany, is a bunker aficionado, having been fascinated with them since he visited a WWII bunker in Arnhem when he was a kid.

Understanding the possibilities of computer technology and the internet, he first opened a profitable computer store in the early 90s. In 1995, with the money earned from this business, he was able to buy a former NATO bunker in the southern part of the Netherlands, which ended up being the location of the first Cyberbunker - a company that provides internet and web hosting services to questionable operations.

In 2013, Xennt found and purchased a 5-level underground Cold War-era bunker in Traben-Trarbach, a small town in the South of Germany.

This led to the discovery of evidence of criminal activity: Cyberbunker provided hosting for dark web marketplaces, a forum for exchanging illegal drugs, counterfeit money and fake identification, and more.

Xennt and his criminal colleagues were arrested, and over 280 servers hosting websites for up to 200 customers were shut down.

Cyberbunker was know among cybercriminals as a "Bulletproof hoster", which meant that the servers hosting the content stayed online no matter what.

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