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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. They'll move elsewhere by Canazza · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The questions that should be asked is "Are they closing in on the criminals who set up these sites?"

    Surely with all the information they can get from this rogue ISP they can track down the wankers who run them.

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    It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for being subtle.
    1. Re:They'll move elsewhere by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Thing is rogue antivirus products and such isn't exactly illegal. In USA it can count as misleading advertisement but as we know USA laws dont apply everywhere. This case also is not police investigation, but their upstream provider TeliaSonera just cut them off because it made them look bad.

      We demand net neutrality for pirates and defend laws of other countries. Now botnets and phishing are really bad, but instead of getting to root of the problem these security researchers are purposely destroying net neutrality. TeliaSonera is also upstream provider for The Pirate Bay so they could just suddenly cut TPB's access to the internet. Then everyone would be saying how they're legal in Sweden and they should not be allowed to do that. Well, its the same issue here.