Russian Business Network goes dark
A quick link from the UK register: Controversial Russian Business Network drops offline.
In a nutshell, Russian Business Netwrk (RBN) is a hosting company that offerred "bulletproof hosting" to spammers, malware distributors, phishing and other unsavory activites suddenly went off line around 0200 GMT yesterday. It is speculated that their upstreams, Tiscali.uk and C41 have pulled the plug, possibly because of a Washington Post expose written last month.
More on the story:
In a nutshell, Russian Business Netwrk (RBN) is a hosting company that offerred "bulletproof hosting" to spammers, malware distributors, phishing and other unsavory activites suddenly went off line around 0200 GMT yesterday. It is speculated that their upstreams, Tiscali.uk and C41 have pulled the plug, possibly because of a Washington Post expose written last month.
More on the story:
- Washington Post: Russian Business Network: Down, But Not Out
- cidr-report.org: Report showing that RBN has relinquished large chunks of address space.
- Trend Labs: RBN goes *Poof*
- Dark Reading: Russian Business Network Disappears
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2 Comments:
It was a about time! But to be honoust the uplink providers could do this much earlier!
Not sure if you've heard about this, but its timing couldn't possibly be coincidental with these recent events.
The connection between Western Express's postal address of 555 8th Ave and the RBN network is neatly captured by F-Secure, who have a copy of the 2006 whois info for rbnnetwork.com here, and even more detailed in pages 31-36 of the RBN analysis here [pdf].
This is not just my research. There have been numerous stories about this particular setup, just not much investigation into whether they were related or not.
SiL / IKS / concerned citizen
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