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After Links To Cybercrime, Latvian ISP Cut Off

Posted by timothy on from the people-interpret-jerks-as-damage-and-route-around-them dept.

alphadogg writes with this Network World story, excerpting "A Latvian ISP linked to online criminal activity has been cut off from the Internet, following complaints from Internet security researchers. Real Host, based in Riga, Latvia was thought to control command-and-control servers for infected botnet PCs, and had been linked to phishing sites, Web sites that launched attack code at visitors and were also home to malicious 'rogue' antivirus products, according to a researcher using the pseudonym Jart Armin, who works on the Hostexploit.com Web site. 'This is maybe one of the top European centers of crap,' he said in an e-mail interview. 'It was a cesspool of criminal activity,' said Paul Ferguson, a researcher with Trend Micro."

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  1. Centers of Crap by xtracto · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is maybe one of the top European centers of crap,'

    The server 216.178.38.116 is an American server known to have loads of crap too! I hope they also could get it!

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  2. If there's one kind of cesspool I hate... by Jafafa+Hots · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...it's a cesspool of crap.

    the other kinds are ok.

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  3. Re:It's not criminal activity when we do it by Linker3000 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I thought xenophobia was a fear of virtualised environments?

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