The FBI seized virtualine.net, the domain of a Russian-speaking bulletproof hosting provider known as Virtualine, Secury, Massgod, Spamhouse, Lanedo and Omegatech. Court documents show the service hosted illicit activities such as phishing, spam, carding and the distribution of explicit images of minors and adults, and it advertised the ability to move customer services to unaffiliated infrastructure while deliberately ignoring abuse reports. Virtualine also supported a hack-for-hire operation that stole sexually explicit content and continued to host the new site after multiple law-enforcement takedown requests. Blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs reports that the provider received the most illicit-attributed cryptocurrency among TRM-labeled bulletproof hosts, with payments largely coming from a Russian drug marketplace (44%) and a large sextortion scheme (17%). The provider emerged on the Exploit forum in 2024, claims operation since 2019, and said it held the largest collection of autonomous system numbers for malware and botnet hosting in 2025. 1