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Russian Hacker Gang Vanishes Again
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."
It seems like having all of your traffic on seven well-defined subnets is an easy way to make all of your activity really obvious.
But hey, at least these guys are being pursued and thwarted. There are way too many hackers and script kiddies out there who need to get their butts kicked one and become productive members of society with their skills. This is an important lesson and it comes at a price, but ultimately we need to convert these people to use their technical knowledge for good. By making it harder and harder for the underworld to survive, the economic benefits of that lifestyle become overshadowed by its risks. This will bring these people out into the light, and hopefully both reduce the economic pain they cause with their mischief, and also let them contribute constructively.
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As the Kremlin moves into cyberspace, each KGB clique will want a "piece of the action" and has absorbed some alumni of the RBN. In the 21st century, even the Russian mafia needs an online presence.
dapper.. AW HELL NO theyre using outdated ubuntu distros just when we thought this couldn't get any worse
Well, based in China as I am, I can think of another reason the RBN stayed here for a few days and then quit. The internet connection to the outside world is horribly slow! I regularly get modem speeds when using US-based sites such as slashdot. If file transfers go above 10k/s then I'm ecstatic. I can't imagine that spammers would be happy with slow connections. I had a Nordic businessman ask me for some consulting recently. I talked to him, and he said that the internet was too slow between there and Denmark, and could I fix it? I just rolled my eyes and told him to talk to either Hu Jintao or the Ministry of Propaganda and Information...
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
When I moved into an apartment in Shenzhen, the landlord had already initiated internet service. Problem was, it was the entry-level package, and yes, it was slow. If I wanted speed, I had to wait until I went into the office.
All I had to do was contact China Telecom and ask to move up to the next tier. Throughput was doubled by the afternoon. And my billing dropped by 30% per year. Much better...
Sure it does, it makes way for competitors.
Being a botmaster looks alot like being a drug dealer, & that's what happens with drug dealers.
Wanna fight ? Bend over, stick your head up your ass, and fight for air.
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.
I'm curious, is Slashdot not censored?
I imagine if you're having to go around that, it might slow things down a bit.
Don't thank God, thank a doctor!
A: Just about any other white collar criminal who steals enough to make the maximum fine seem like nothing in comparison. Most major wall street crooks for instance. White collar crime is like that unfortunately.
- Controlling the Russian Beast
(BTW, all of these posts show how little you know about Russia)Do you have an agenda or something?
Or are Poles so stuck in history that it's their new fetish now: ruining US/EU relationships with Russia?
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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Although the list contains more than just RBN-related netblocks, the Spamhaus DROP List is your friend.
Oh, no! You have walked into the slavering fangs of a lurking grue!
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.