Microsoft, Agencies Disrupt RedVDS Cybercrime Platform

Microsoft and international law enforcement agencies announced on Wednesday that they have disrupted RedVDS, a global cybercrime-as-a-service platform operating since 2019 that enabled widespread fraud schemes and caused at least 40 million dollars in losses in the United States alone since March 2025. The coordinated operation involved seizing the service's infrastructure, including two domains hosting its marketplace and customer portal, through legal actions in the United States and the United Kingdom, with support from Europol and German authorities.

RedVDS provided cybercriminals with access to disposable virtual dedicated servers, or VDS, for as little as 24 dollars per month. These servers ran unlicensed software, including Windows, allowing users full administrator control without usage limits or activity logs. The platform's design made fraudulent activities cheap, scalable, and difficult to trace, as operators could provision servers in locations close to targets, such as the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, and Netherlands, by renting from third-party hosting providers. Microsoft researchers identified the service's operator as the threat group...