FBI seizes Virtualine.net over alleged criminal hosting
Original title: Virtualine Domain Seized, but Allegedly Abusive Website Remains Online
The government says Virtualine still hosts a replacement site that has already drawn a child-abuse complaint.
The FBI seized virtualine.net after a court authorized the action. Prosecutors say the bulletproof host, also known as Secury, Massgod, Spamhouse, Lanedo and Omegatech, facilitated criminal activity including advertisement of sexual images of minors, nonconsensual intimate images and international money laundering. They say it kept hosting a forum after abuse reports and helped move that infrastructure to another site. The FBI Washington Field Office led the case with European and private partners.
Unconfirmed: The allegations come from the government and court records; no convictions are reported.
- Virtualine advertised on Exploit.in and HackForums that it ignored abuse complaints.
- A March 2026 plan allegedly moved customer infrastructure to another shell company after law-enforcement requests.
- Reports came from police in Germany, Canada and Australia, NCMEC and a victim’s lawyer.
- The government says some payments arrived directly from criminal groups and were moved onward.
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The FBI seized Virtualine, a hosting service accused of supporting criminal sites, ignoring abuse reports and helping launder money from illegal activities The FBI seized the website of Virtualine, a hosting service that sold its services to criminals. The seized domain is virtualine. net, and the government says the site was used to commit and facilitate […]
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