Companies like this have, unfortunately, been around for a long time. In the “early” days of the net, you used to see a lot of stuff on freelance writing sites looking to hire people for paper writing. I forget what they dressed it up as, but that’s what it was.
I would guess nowadays there are dozens of companies like this one online, just a click away. A lot of universities now have certain software programs to “catch” these papers, though I don’t know how well they work. When I was in grad school, I busted a guy for trying to pass off one of these paper mill papers as his own by checking his sources (don’t want to say more than that - a gentleman must have his secrets :-) )
“Companies like this have, unfortunately, been around for a long time.”
The first one I ever came across (might have been an advertisement in the old “Boston Phoenix”) appeared in the mid-70’s, a company memorably named “Quality B*llsh*t”.
Of course, with the internet, those operations have become both ubiquitous and amazingly convenient. High school and college faculty have access to programs that can search data bases for plagiarized papers, but as best I can see, about the only way to stop the “best” of those operations (the ones that write each paper as a custom job) is by demanding some in-class writing exercise/s to identify those students who really have little facility with the written word.
These companies have been around since before computers and the internet. I knew people in the early 70s who found the ads in various newspapers and other publications and paid to have entire papers and thesis done by one of these “services”.
Those services were around long before the internet. In the early seventies, if you lived in a university town, you would see ads for them in the local "alternative" press and posted on bulletin boards at the laundromat. And I would guess they arose well before then.