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RBN Goes Dark to Relocate; May Be Moving to China

Gregg Keizer writes on ComputerWorld:

The Russian Business Network (RBN), a notorious hacker and malware hosting organization that operates out of St. Petersburg, Russia, has gone off the air, security researchers said today.

According to a pair of Trend Micro Inc. researchers, RBN went dark around 10 p.m. EST Tuesday. "The routing information for their IP addresses has been withdrawn," said Paul Ferguson, a network architect at Trend Micro. "That's significant because while RBN has had connectivity issues in the past, then the routing [to its IP addresses] was still being advertised. This time, they've been voluntarily withdrawn."

"This is not the result of someone, such as their ISP, blackholing their traffic," Ferguson continued. "This was done voluntarily." Another report, however, on The Washington Post's Web site, claimed that while RBN has severed links to the Internet, its upstream connectivity providers had begun to refuse to route RBN traffic as early as mid-October.

posted by Fergie @ 11/07/2007 01:55:00 PM