Russian Phishers Moving to China? 67
Hugh Pickens writes "The Russian Business Network, an ISP and Web hosting provider based in St. Petersburg, whose client list amounts to a laundry list of organized cybercrime operations appears to have closed shop after a number of its main upstream Internet providers severed ties with the group. The disappearance of RBN comes less than a month after Brian Krebs of the Washington Post wrote a series of stories detailing the organization and history of the shadowy ISP. However, experts at anti-spam group Spamhaus say there are strong indications that a huge swath of Internet space recently established in China may soon emerge as the next incarnation of the Russian Business Network. In related news FBI Director Robert S. Mueller, III gave a speech on cybercrime earlier this week where he said that the FBI has 60 Legal Attaché offices around the world working with partners in Russia, Romania,Poland, Hungary, Italy, and Estonia, among others, to investigate international cyber threats."
Firewall the World (Score:4, Interesting)
Offensive to you? Why? What legitimate need do you have to access my server? My company has absolutely nothing to interest you. Therefore, what reason could you possibly have to access my server?
Let the bloodletting begin.
Re:internet 101 (Score:3, Interesting)
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/language_tips/cdaudio/2007-11/06/content_6234061.htm [chinadaily.com.cn]
Also, the latest round of recalls came from Mexico.
http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/business_agriculture/story.html?id=6bbd57b0-e1d3-48d9-9a14-ebe3e6b24c04 [canada.com]
China can make high quality electronic equipment, and they can also make low quality toys. You can't really blame them for making what they were paid to make.
Re:internet 101 (Score:2, Interesting)