“The Cybercrime Team Amsterdam will, in consultation with the Public Prosecution Service, further investigate the data found on the seized servers,” Dutch police said. Police in the Netherlands say they seized 127 servers this week that were used by Zservers, a bulletproof hosting service that was the subject of international sanctions issued Tuesday. The raid on Wednesday at the Paul van Vlissingenstraat data center in Amsterdam “followed a long-term digital investigation into the activities of a hosting provider based there, called ZServers/XHost,” police said Thursday. Dutch police said their investigation also showed a link between the seized servers and the Conti cybercrime gang. In addition to ransomware, the servers showed signs of related malware, including botnets, Dutch police said. The company stood out because it advertised the possibility for customers to allow criminal acts from its servers,” the police statement said. The U.S. sanctions announcements labeled two Russian nationals — Alexander Igorevich Mishin and Aleksandr Sergeyevich Bolshakov — as administrators of Zservers. Prior to that, he was a digital editor at WAMU 88.5, the NPR affiliate in Washington, and he spent more than a decade editing coverage of Congress for CQ Roll Call.
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