Is it just me, or are the majority of raids of malware/botnet hosters typically in the EU? I mean just 6 days ago a raid was cunducted on a old NATO bunker in Germany. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21090549 Is it that it's easier to become a hosting provider there with more protections (rights) and/or does America/NA lack the legal authority/process to conduct as many raids. Obviously eastern Eurupe/Russia is…
I'm curious why Eastern Europe/Russia are the wild west of douchey internet behavior. I mean there are seemingly endless bulletproof hosting providers. Who wakes up in the morning with the ultimate goal of being slimy on purpose like that? And why are there so many of them concentrated in Russia/Eastern Europe?
If you think about it from the host countries’ perspective, stealing money from foreigners or nefariously affecting them doesn’t harm the hosts much but can bring in a lot of money to their economies.