If you follow any of the white hat groups, or security researchers, you
will see a lot of them already doing it with little or no effect..
(Which means of course people stop bothering to report it)
However, a little birdie told me that certain government agencies are
finally waking up and gathering evidence on lack of abuse resolution
response times at ISP's and Hosting Providers on North American soil..
If anything, the time is better spent supporting those. Send complaints
to your local CERT's, Anti-Spam groups, and internet governing bodies..
And/or include them in your social media posts on the topic..
Since you suggested that financial motives are at play (and that
suggestion goes all the way to the 2000's and cable operators were at
that time the ones not responding) a few fines pointed their way might
make it a financial motive to be responsible for what comes out of their
networks.
Happy Monday Everyone!
-- Michael --
PS, pgHammer went quiet yesterday.. either someone caught/killed his C&C
server, or the actor realized that there was too much attention on the
activity. That doesn't mean those servers listed should not still be
taken down, as they are still compromised.. Seems he has one server that
is still running, he might have lost control of that one.. or just
testing ..
81.169.142.116 x88 h2530146.stratoserver.net
On 2019-04-29 6:54 a.m., Benoit Panizzon via mailop wrote:
Hi List
I wonder if DigitalOcean is running for some social media related
wake-up call.
I Twittered to @digitalocean about the lack of responsiveness from their
abuse desk.
They promptly replied via Twitter:
"We apologise for the trouble. Our security & operation team is already
looking into it."
As I still had a case open with them, I appended your nice list of
pgHammer IP Addresses.
This time, they replied promptly:
"As we are an unmanaged cloud hosting provider, we do not create,
administer, or have direct access to our customers' Droplets. This
means that we cannot make direct changes to any programs or websites
hosted there."
Well I once more pointed out, all they need to do is pull the 'virtual'
plug to those servers which are the origin of abusive behavior. But I
fear the do not understand or do not want to understand as long as the
customer is paying the bill. McColo/2 ?
So anyone else wanting to moan via their social media channels? I
think their quick reaction shows, this bothers them.
Mit freundlichen Grüssen
-Benoît Panizzon-
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