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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."

10 of 64 comments (clear)

  1. They're all busy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    trying to get 1st post!!

  2. You never know.... by Prysorra · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "Disappear" contains the words:

    -die
    -raped

    Any others?

    1. Re:You never know.... by Zorque · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Diaper sap?

  3. Mod offtopic. by Gregb05 · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    • Appear
    • Pear
    • reap
    • pie
    • air
    • dear
    • spear
    • ape
    • sap
    • sip
    • is
    and probably a few others. Glad I could help.
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    1. Re:Mod offtopic. by Propaganda13 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      area
      pea
      pee
      paid
      raid
      said
      pare

  4. Re:nice... by renegadesx · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well in Soviet China the sign would read....

    Botnet Masters...

    Oh, nevermind

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  5. alll your... by cheekyboy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Russian bases belonga to Kazakhstan, the greatest kuntry on a Earth.

    Hi Five.

    Yakshi Mash.

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  6. Re:MOD PARENT DOWN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I might agree with the guy who posted before you because parent *is* muddying th waters, but I have more than a sneaking suspicion that you completely missed the sarcasm there.
    Unless you didn't and you're just being incredibly subtle... Or he wasn't and is thus as dense as you seem to think he was.

  7. Re:Curious... by EugeneK · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    it's just a bunch of man-children whining about the RIAA after all

    i lol'ed. kudos sir! hen hao.

  8. Re:MOD PARENT DOWN by Dunbal · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    WARNING WARNING WARNING

    According to the Surgeon General, *some* internet posts may contain sarcasm. If you do not understand sarcasm, responding to these posts may not be for you.

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    Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.