New, by me:
Authorities in the Netherlands have arrested the co-owners of two related Internet hosting companies for operating IT infrastructure used by Russia to carry out cyberattacks, influence operations and disinformation campaigns inside the European Union. The two men were the focus of a 2025 KrebsOnSecurity story about how their hosting companies had assumed control over the technical infrastructure of Stark Industries Solutions, an Internet service provider sanctioned last year by the EU as a frequent staging ground for cyber mischief from Russia’s intelligence agencies.
krebsonsecurity.com/2026/05/ne…
Previous reporting on Stark Industries:
May 2024: Stark Industries Solutions: An Iron Hammer in the Cloud: krebsonsecurity.com/2024/05/st…
July 2024: The Stark Truth Behind the Resurgence of Russia's Fin7: krebsonsecurity.com/2024/07/th…
September 2025: Bulletproof Host Stark Industries Evades EU Sanctions: krebsonsecurity.com/2025/09/bu…
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Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on governm…
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