Dutch authorities conduct a crackdown on companies suspected of hosting infrastructure used for Russian state-sponsored cyberattacks. The Netherlands’ financial crimes agency, the FIOD (Fiscal Information and Investigation Service), raids two data centres in the country and seizes about 800 servers, according to reports. The operation targets hosting providers that are alleged to have supplied services used for attacks across Europe.
One report says the servers shut down are operated by WorkTitans and MIRhosting, which investigators suspect of violating Dutch and/or international rules related to cyber operations. Bloomberg also reports that Dutch police seize the servers in raids on data centres as part of the action against alleged Russian hackers.
The Next Web additionally reports that authorities arrest two men connected to the investigation. The accounts focus on the scale of the server seizure and the role of hosting infrastructure in facilitating cyberattacks, while attributing responsibility to alleged Russian activity rather than providing detailed technical findings in the excerpts.
