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Uncooperative Russian ISP Prevents Cisco From Shutting Down Cybercriminal Gang

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. Block all traffic to/from Russia and China. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm pretty sure I would never even notice, and the internet would be a safer place.

    1. Re:Block all traffic to/from Russia and China. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

      I run my own firewall and I actually did block, among some other areas, everything East from my country, including Russia. Whole of Asia, Africa, South America and Australia. The average attack attempts to my web servers dropped from hundreds per week to a couple per week. It's also really nice how you can block inbound and outbound or just inbound traffic.

  2. Adblock folks by Billly+Gates · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I tell everyone I know to use them.

    Advertisers either fix your shit or loose out? If you can't regulate yourselves in regards to 3rd party networks and ethical ads then you will be out of business.

    Fact of the matter is it is too dangerous to run without one. That should go right up there with browsing the net as administrator or root and using IE 6 these days.

    Also for those who say they are safe as long as they don't click or run anything, all I can say is told you so! Open a page with flash and your 0wned. Simple

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    http://saveie6.com/