Three VPN services that provided a safe haven for cybercriminals for more than a decade have been take down as part of a joint operation between law enforcement agencies from the US, Germany, France and Switzerland.

Law enforcement agencies seized the domains insorg[.]org, safe-inet[.]com, and safe-inet[.]net and their homepages have now been replaced with banners telling visitors that the sites have been seized as part of Operation Nova.

In separate press releases, the US Department of Justice and Europol explained that the three companies' servers were routinely used to mask the real identities of ransomware gangs, Magecart groups and other cybercriminals.

The three illegal VPN services allowed attackers to operate from behind a proxy network that was up to five layers deep so that their online activities couldn't be traced back to them.

All three companies that had their domains seized operated bulletproof hosting services according to law enforcement. 

The US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan provided further insight on how bulletproof hosting differs from traditional web hosting in a press release, saying:

“A “bulletproof hosting service” is an online service provided by an individual or an organization that is intentionally designed to provide web hosting or VPN services for criminal activity.  These services are designed to facilitate uninterrupted online criminal activities and to allow customers to operate while evading detections by law enforcement. A bulletproof hoster’s activities may include ignoring or fabricating excuses in response to abuse complaints made by their customer’s victims; moving their customer accounts and/or data from one IP address, server, or country to another to help them evade detection; and not maintaining logs (so that none are available for review by law enforcement). ”

The operators of these illegal VPNs also used underground hacking forums to advertise their services to cybercriminals that wanted to avoid detection online.

While all three domains have now been seized, Europol says that it plans to analyze the data collected from the sites in order to take action against some of the service's users.

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Bizarre rituals

The preacher was shaving the privates of female members of his congregation as the congregation cheered him on.

The pastor had instructed them to line up and immediately they reached where he was, they removed their inner garments and the pastor went ahead to shave their pubic hair.

The pastor who claimed to conduct some sort of supernatural cleansing appeared upset by those who claimed he was not a genuine preacher. As the shaving continued, another man assumed to be his assistant was busy collecting the hair using a sparkling white piece of cloth.

Fake preacher

This pastor is indeed rogue by all standards. There is nowhere in the scriptures where his acts are justified. This fake pastor is probably satisfying his own fetish desires.

Secondly, this preacher was only subjecting his female congregants to this rituals. Even men need to be "cleansed " as well.This deliberate discrimination is evident this preacher was not legit in any way.

Well being in Africa a continent where witchcraft and superstitions are widespread, it's not a far fetched idea to assume that the rogue preacher was collecting the pubic hair for ritualistic purposes. There is no other explanation for these.

Bible based

Jesus Christ Himself warned of fake preachers and perhaps this preacher is one of them. We ought to be very careful which churches we attend to. A legitimate church should be Bible based and all teachings should be should come from no other source.

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