Anonfiles, a preferred service for sharing recordsdata anonymously, has shut down after saying it will probably not cope with the overwhelming abuse by its customers.

Anonfiles is an nameless file-sharing website that enables individuals to share recordsdata anonymously with out their exercise being logged.

Nevertheless, it quickly turned probably the most in style file-sharing companies utilized by menace actors to share samples of stolen knowledge, 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 recordsdata.

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 will not cope with the overwhelming quantity of abusive materials uploaded to the positioning.

The assertion proven on Anonfiles website is reproduced in its entirety beneath:

“After making an attempt endlessly for 2 years to run a file sharing website with consumer anonymity now we have been uninterested in dealing with the acute volumes of individuals abusing it and the complications it has created for us.
Possibly it’s laborious to grasp however after tens of million uploads and lots of petabytes later all work of dealing with abuse was automated by means of all out there channels to be quick as potential.
Now we have auto banned contents of tons of of hundreds recordsdata.
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 unintended delete hundreds of false optimistic on this course of.
Even in spite of everything this the excessive quantity of abuse is not going to 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 website 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 mentioned you’d usually be first redirected to a website that downloaded an ISO file utilizing the identical identify because the file you thought you have been downloading.

Nevertheless, these ISO recordsdata 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, prone to launch their very own file sharing service.

Nevertheless, within the interim, the shutdown will trigger many recordsdata utilized by cybersecurity researchers and menace actors alike to not be out there.