A preferred nameless file sharing service utilized by safety researchers and menace actors has determined to shut down, citing “excessive volumes” of customers abusing it.
AnonFiles was a going concern for 2 years, enabling anybody to share recordsdata with out concern of being tracked on-line.
It turned a well-liked means for malicious hackers to share stolen knowledge reminiscent of logins and personally identifiable data (PII).
As first reported by researcher @g0njxa, its directors are actually calling it a day after their proxy supplier not too long ago pulled out. They claimed it was “not the sort of work” they imagined when buying the area.
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“After making an attempt endlessly for 2 years to run a file sharing website with consumer anonymity we now have been bored with dealing with the intense volumes of individuals abusing it and the complications it has created for us,” they added.
“Perhaps it’s laborious to know however after tens of million uploads and lots of petabytes later all work of dealing with abuse was automated by all obtainable channels to be quick as potential. We now have auto banned contents of a whole lot of 1000’s [of] recordsdata.”
The admins continued, saying that they banned file names and utilization patterns related to “abusive materials” to the purpose the place they didn’t care even about unintentionally deleting 1000’s of false positives within the course of.
“Even in spite of everything this the excessive quantity of abuse won’t cease,” they added.
AnonFiles was effectively used not solely by menace actors but in addition the safety neighborhood. VX-Underground, which posts what it claims to be the biggest assortment of malware supply code, samples and papers on the web, said on Twitter: “Thanks in your service AnonFiles. It was a helluva web site.”
The admins of the location are actually looking for a purchaser for the area.
