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[snip] In a world where over 95 percent of all business email is spam, is it any wonder that networks hosting "badware" have become global entities operating in full view of most ISPs? Sadly, the growth of informative, educational, and business-oriented networks on the Web has taken place against a dark backdrop. Traffic associated with spam, malware, child pornography, and illegal data has morphed to levels that dwarf beneficial and legitimate content. The challenge is one that IT departments can't fix alone. "Only ISPs, IXPs [Internet exchange points], and Internet regulators can help," wrote online security expert David Bizeul, head of a computer security incident response team (CSIRT) for a bank he has asked remain nameless, in a paper last year. Bizeul was specifically describing the Russian Business Network (RBN), a notorious "cybercrime service provider," originally headquartered in St. Petersburg, Russia. Most sources contacted for this report believe that RBN, whose main sites were shut down by ISPs in 2007, nonetheless continues to operate in other guises and in other locations, harvesting user information to enable a wide range of malware attacks; publish child pornography; and hoard stolen identities and financial fraud data. RBN isn't the only badware network on the Internet. Others, while smaller, are no less malicious in their activities. And, like RBN, these operations are insidious, often protected by hosting partners that profess ignorance of their activities. In this report, we explore the Internet's Axis of Evil and discuss what is – and isn't – being done to stop it. [snip] More: http://www.internetevolution.com/document.asp?doc_id=164484&; - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFI7SFrq1pz9mNUZTMRAtQBAJ9vABWdgrW7lAEHtc8l5BInmm9ZdwCfZ3iF MaDRQXjTCwEOLfwQsSDrZag= =Rfwx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawgster(at)gmail.com ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
