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Russian Hacker Gang Vanishes Again

Posted by kdawson on from the now-you-see-'em dept.

Arashtamere writes "The shadowy hacker and malware hosting network that only recently fled Russia to set up operations in China has now pulled the plug there and vanished yet again. An analyst at VeriSign's iDefense Labs unit said iDefense had tracked RBN's migration earlier in the week from servers based in Russia to ones running in China, after obtaining at least seven net blocks of Chinese IP addresses. As of Wednesday, RBN controlled 5,120 IP addresses assigned to Chinese service providers; known RBN clients were even seen using those addresses that day. But with its China move putting the spotlights of the media and the security community on the organization, RBN suddenly went offline on Thursday. 'They severed connections to six of the seven net blocks on November 8,' the analyst said. RBN as a single organization may be dead and gone; it may even now be breaking up into smaller pieces farmed out to multiple countries' Internet infrastructures."

4 of 64 comments (clear)

  1. Applauds headline by Trogre · · Score: 1, Funny

    While I'm not sure it's a good thing that this hacker network has vanished, I am still pleased with the headline using the term 'hacker' correctly.

    Perhaps we are finally ready to put the misnomer 'cracker' to rest once and for all.

    Now I feel like a bit of cheese...

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    "Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife
  2. Re:Alternative Theory: Russian Mafia Groups by Xachariah · · Score: 2, Funny

    The internet is a dangerous place. You don't pay your protection money and things could happen. Packets get dropped all the time you know.

  3. Re:Alternative Theory: Russian Mafia Groups by mikael · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's a nice set of shiny tubes you have there sonny, We wouldn't want anything to happen to them now, would we?

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  4. The rules of RBN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    The first rule of RBN is, you do not talk about RBN.

    The second rule of RBN is, you DO NOT talk about RBN.

    If something says BSOD, goes coredump, logs out, the crack is over.

    Two crackers to a host.

    One crack at a time.

    No GUIs, no frameworks.

    Cracks will go on as long as they have to.

    If this is your first account at RBN, you have to crack.