Anonfiles, a well-liked service for sharing information anonymously, has shut down after saying it might probably now not take care of the overwhelming abuse by its customers.
Anonfiles is an nameless file-sharing web site that permits folks to share information anonymously with out their exercise being logged.
Nevertheless, it quickly grew to become one of the vital in style file-sharing providers utilized by menace actors to share samples of stolen information, stolen credentials, and copyrighted materials.
5 days in the past, Anonfiles customers started reporting that the service would outing when making an attempt to add information.
As noticed by cybersecurity researcher g0njxa, the Anonfiles operators have now shut down the service, stating that their proxy supplier just lately shut them down and that they’ll now not take care of the overwhelming quantity of abusive materials uploaded to the positioning.
The assertion proven on Anonfiles web site is reproduced in its entirety beneath:
“After making an attempt endlessly for 2 years to run a file sharing web site with consumer anonymity we have now been uninterested in dealing with the acute volumes of individuals abusing it and the complications it has created for us.
Perhaps it’s laborious to grasp however after tens of million uploads and plenty of petabytes later all work of dealing with abuse was automated by all out there channels to be quick as potential.
We’ve auto banned contents of tons of of hundreds information.
Banned file names and in addition banned particular utilization patterns related to abusive materials to the purpose the place we didn’t care if we unintentional delete hundreds of false constructive on this course of.
Even in any case this the excessive quantity of abuse won’t cease.
This isn’t the type of work we think about when buying it and just lately our proxy supplier shut us down.
This can’t proceed.
Area 4sale.
area@anonfiles.com”
Whereas Anonfiles was a helpful file-sharing web site for a lot of, different customers reported [1, 2, 3] that the positioning used shady advertisers that generally redirected malware, tech help scams, and undesirable Google Chrome and Firefox browser extensions.
For instance, when making an attempt to obtain a file from Anonfiles, customers stated you’d usually be first redirected to a web site that downloaded an ISO file utilizing the identical identify because the file you thought you have been downloading.
Nevertheless, these ISO information contained numerous malware, together with information-stealing malware, distant entry trojans, and advert clickers.
In 2021, CronUp researcher Germán Fernández warned that Anonfiles malvertising was pushing the RedLine Stealer malware, a infamous information-stealing malware that steals your credentials and cryptocurrency wallets.
Different malvertising campaigns seen by Fernández and Malwarebytes on Anonfiles pushed search hijacking extensions, Amadey botnet, Vidar stealer, and even STOP ransomware.
The Anonfiles operators are actually searching for somebody to buy their area, more likely to launch their very own file sharing service.
Nevertheless, within the interim, the shutdown will trigger many information utilized by cybersecurity researchers and menace actors alike to now not be out there.