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Hotbed of Cybercrime Activity Tracked Down To ISP In Region Where Russia Is Invading Ukraine (bleepingcomputer.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Last week, WordPress security firm WordFence revealed it detected over 1.65 million brute-force attacks originating from an ISP in Ukraine that generated more malicious traffic than GoDaddy, OVH, and Rostelecom, put together. A week later, after news of WordFence's findings came to light, Ukrainian users have tracked down the ISP to a company called SKS-Lugan in the city of Alchevs'k, in an area controlled by pro-Russian forces in eastern Ukraine. All clues point to the fact that the ISP's owners are using the chaos created by the Russian military intervention in Ukraine to host cyber-crime operations on their servers. Some of the criminal activities the ISP hosts, besides servers for launching brute-force attacks, include command-and-control servers for the Locky ransomware, [email, comment, and forum] spam botnets, illegal streaming sites, DDoS stressers, carding sites, several banking trojans (Vawtrack, Tinba), and infostealers (Pony, Neurevt). UPDATE 12/22/16: The headline and summary have been updated to reflect the fact that Ukraine is fighting a Russian invasion, and is not in a "civil war," as mentioned in the source.
Those poor old Chinese hackers must be wondering what they did wrong for them to stop being blamed for absolutely everything.
Don't doubt we will be hearing about them in the news in the near future. Whose drones? Who knows.
This is what is in stall for the rest of us if the reds take hold!
Any time a country occupies another's territory they will employ its infrastructure and resources to further whatever objectives are profitable for the invading country. In the past it might be industries such as steel production, fuel production, mining of natural resources, plundering of various kinds of stockpiles, utilizing manufacturing to produce weapons and munitions to further increase the power of the invading country. Just because these days those resources can also take the form of technologies (such as internet bandwidth and processing power) it makes them no less valuable or exploitable.
Better known as 318230.
All clues point to the fact that the ISP's owners are using the chaos created by the Ukrainian civil war to host cyber-crime operations on their servers.
or more likely the owners and staff were gunned down or driven off by the civil war, leaving the doors open and business office available for other sundry activities.
Good people go to bed earlier.
How much is a delivered Tomahawk with the self guided air delivery option?
Why is Snark Required?
Bringing on international police cooperation will not work, as Ukraine does not control that territory.
That creates a difficult diplomatic situation: in order to get a result, one country has to recognize the region's sovereignty. Or alternatively, one can blacklist the offending IPs
LALALALALA cant hear you, Vlad would never do anything like this and wouldn't allow his people to do it either. Wouldnt want to make Vlad or his puppets mad. I wouldnt want to get my tea poisoned with thallium.
Maybe that will send a message...
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
with a GPS guided drone, do it at night to minimize casualties
Like the Alchevs'k hackers, Trump too is "controlled by pro-Russian forces." After Trump deregulates cable and phone companies and abolishes net neutrality, consumers can expect
* higher internet bills
* worse customer service
* fewer choices
This will drive so many Americans off the internet that they won't need to worry about Russian hackers anymore!
Put your stooge into power, and all the resources of the USA become available too. NSA, CIA, ... you want to rig elections in 5 eyes? That should be easy given their exposed underside. Trump won't let the DHS secure networks in the next election, his hacker friends will be used to secure his position.
Resources are exploitable.
Don't be surprised, if everybody decide to demonize and ignore civil rights of some part of world for sake of "keep irritating russia" and "let's assume as humans only friendly to us dudes", definitely those in war zone will become even more rogue and do more and more nasty things.
Keep in mind, skilled IT workers there, and they need earn for living, so for sure some of them will fall in hands of gangs.
https://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/query/SBL190623
Just block the whole ISP and call it a day
The idea that there's a civil war in Ukraine comes from Russian propaganda. There's actually a war against Russia going on there. The people who initiated it and the people on which it relies today all have Russian citizenship.
Did you know donald trump emphasizes with these pro-russians? Perhaps the allegations to the russian government aren't that far fetched at all and did these hacktivists disrupt the democratic party's campaign on purpose.
Bach says it all.
UN GA just days ago adopted a resolution finally admitting that Ukraine is a victim of the Russian military agression. Crimea is now an internationally recognized ocuppied region. The war in the eastern parts of the country is also between two nation-states: Ukraine and Russia. Claims about a "civil war" are distilled Fake News, a lie, Kremlin's disinformation.
Why is it I don't believe any of this?
For better or worse, the part of the United States' electorate, to whom you want to appeal, view the United Nations with skepticism. So, instead of appealing to a questionable authority, try the following argument...
Imagine, Americans, Mexican government declaring Trump's election "a coup", his assemblage of generals — a junta, which placed the Latinophobic Nazi in power, contrary to the wishes of most Americans. Out of concern for the brotherly nation, Mexican government is encouraging volunteers to cross into California, Arizona, and Texas to help the local Spanish-speaking "self-defense" militias protect themselves against the White English-speaking bigots, who've persecuted the Spanish-speaking minority for years. In places stolen from Mexico before, these polite volunteers in military uniforms without any official insignia are already organizing a referendum to leave the US and join Mexico.
Patriotic Americans attempting to resist the invasion are denounced as racists and shot at with military-style efficiency. Although officially Mexico is not a party to this "civil war", its troops are regularly encountered on the battlefields — all of them are then found to have been "on leave" from their units. Artillery bombardment of American forces seems to originate from across the border, but no one can say for sure.
Would you still say, it is a civil war — Americans fighting other Americans?
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
See subject: In a warzone so no law exists & anyone can put up sites there - it's a "put-up/snow job" framing russians imo.
* Attribution (as to WHO is behind it)? Especially in nations that don't 'cooperate' between international & national bodies of law enforcement is HARD let alone in a warzone (it could be anyone doing it vs. russians).
APK
P.S.=> To be honest about it & it makes me ashamed in fact? I would NOT doubt it's our CIA doing it (or the Chinese) trying to stir-up trouble - wtf! Doesn't the world have ENOUGH already?? apk
An "invasion" would be over in about six hours, because that's about the amount of time it would take a superpower to subdue a foe that size.
This invasion talk takes me back to the laughable daily claims a couple of years back from the Nazi regime in Kiev, when they literally claimed EVERY DAY that that an invasion had begun. #fakenews
It is wrong to change the very meaning of a word and then argue, other people aren't using it correctly.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.