Dutch police roll up global communication network for criminals | Inland

Servers of the service have been taken off the air in the Netherlands, Germany, the United States and Canada, among others. A police spokeswoman says that two servers have been seized in the Netherlands, but cannot say how many there are internationally. She would not say whether and how many suspects are now in the picture. “The investigation into the users and the conversations behind them is still ongoing.”

DoubleVPN provided so-called virtual private networks (VPNs). They encrypt the traffic of a computer, tablet, laptop or smartphone. Others, such as detectives, cannot monitor the user and see which sites someone visits. This is legal in itself, VPNs are used, among other things, by opposition supporters in dictatorships, but DoubleVPN’s customers used the service, among other things, to distribute ransomware and to send phishing emails with which they want to get their hands on data from unsuspecting people. A subscription to the service cost 22 euros per month.

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