FBI seizes Virtualine domain over alleged criminal hosting
Original title: FBI Seizes Virtualine Domain Over Alleged Criminal Hosting and Bitcoin Money Laundering
Prosecutors say the host kept a forum online after child-exploitation notices and took unhosted bitcoin.
The U.S. Justice Department said the FBI seized virtualine.net, a bulletproof host also known as Secury, Massgod, Spamhouse, Lanedo and Omegatech. Court filings say it advertised servers for phishing, carding, spam and port scanning, hosted a forum selling sexual images of minors despite notices, and took unhosted bitcoin that was then moved to hide its origin. Police in Hesse, the Netherlands and the UK National Crime Agency joined the operation with OverRIPE and Lumen. The operator denies knowingly hosting the material and says customer data is safe.
Unconfirmed: The operator disputes knowingly hosting abuse material; the Justice Department says the site stayed online.
- Listed plans ran from $19.99 to $379.99 per month.
- Chainalysis links its bitcoin wallets to ransomware, stealers, forums and scams.
- Spamhaus said in September 2025 that Virtualine expanded onto AS209800.
- The operator claims the Vendor 1 relationship was ended within 24 hours.
Indicators of compromise
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| domain | virtualine.net | promote criminal conduct," the DoJ said . Visitors to the "virtualine[.]net" domain are now greeted by a message that states it has b |
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The U. S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Tuesday announced the seizure of a domain associated with a bulletproof hosting provider (BPH) named Virtualine.
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