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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act - George Orwell
Latvian botnet host canned
A LATVIAN HOSTING COMPANY that was thought to have harboured the world's biggest phishing botnet has been forced to shut up shop by the Swedish telecoms outfit Telis Sonera.
Real Host, which owned the AS8206 Junik server based in Riga that spread the Zeus botnet, has been linked to almost half of the world's phishing attacks in which Russian gangsters attempted to steal the identities and bank details of Internet users.
The Russian Business Network (RBN), which inhabited the same server, had been described as one of the world's most blatant cybercrime networks and was considered a bullet proof hosting hub by digital dastards the world over.
Under the counter goings on served at Real Host connected sites included exploits for unpatched zero-day flaws, malware payloads to drop on victims PCs (including fake codecs, banking trojans, spambots, fake antivirus software and even a Mac trojan), phishing websites, money mule (pyramid selling for the terminally stupid) recruitment sites, cracked software and illegal porn.
Real Host has been compared to McColo and Atrivo, the two most notorious hosting companies in the history of the Internet, and was described by one observer as "a cesspool of criminal activity".
The Zeus trojan is estimated to have infected up to 3.6 million individual PCs and could be purchased from sites hosted on the Latvian server for as little as $1,000. µ
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I wish ISPs would implement the Usenet equivalent of a "Death Penalty" to such providers -- killing their traffic completely until they have cleaned up their acts. Hell, I wouldn't even mind having all of Latvia cut off until they clamp down on these criminals.
Latvia is close second to Lithoainia for invention of chemical printing (lithography). Entire world was wiped out with false script from those ruskie imposters. Process is still tightly controled by easterners. So its NOT surpriing that latvian organization with deep banking ties runs so much phising spams. Most Governments are NOT Near so complex, being merely cheesebox telephone scam.
About 4 trillion spams are sent annually & that represents enough fuel to build & power 500,000 homes each year. While NO One wants Spam, entire Metro city is left unbuilt by excessive waste, EACH YEAR, just from spam.
Criminal? Well beyond sights of law to comprehend. As false law books are pretty close to spam in origin & content.Bad Documents Are Only Game in Town for Upper Class. HAVE YOU PAID YOUR DRASHEK TODAY?
spams, phishing, malware and all other security problems can all be solved by having installed an av solution that will protect your pc. I recommend using bitdefender because it has some great engines of detection the threats. if you like you can give it a try by downloading the trial form they site at: http://www.bitdefender.com