Uncooperative Russian ISP Prevents Cisco From Shutting Down Cybercriminal Gang

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday January 9, 2016 @02:21AM from the money-is-involved dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Cisco's Talos research team has managed to identify and partially shut down a cyber-criminal group that is using the RIG exploit kit to infect users with spambots via a malvertising campaign. Their investigation led them back to Russian ISP Eurobyte, who didn't bother answering critical emails and allowed the campaign to go on even today. In October 2015, Cisco's researchers also thwarted the activity of another group of cyber-criminals that made around $30 million from distributing ransomware.

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Holidays by Anonymous Coward · 2016-01-09 03:08 · Score: 4, Informative

You won't find any Russian business that would respond to inquiries this week (with the exception of employees working from home even though they shouldn't). Reason: all Russians have official holidays that started on January 1 and will end on January 11.
1. Re:Holidays by Jiro · 2016-01-09 16:42 · Score: 3, Informative
  
  TFA shows that researching the malware was done during the months of September and October 2015. It seems unlikely they would wait until New Years to contact the ISP.