Feds Shutter ‘Black Hat’ ISP

[kristopher]

Source: Wired.com

Feds Shutter ‘Black Hat’ ISP
By David Kravets
June 4, 2009 5:02 pm

For the first time, the Federal Trade Commission is shuttering an internet service provider it alleges, “recruits, knowingly hosts, and actively participates in the distribution of illegal, malicious and harmful electronic content” such as botnets and child porn.

The company, doing business as 3fn.net and APS Telecom, “actively recruited” to its hosting service thousands of “rouge” and “black hat” web sites distributing “illegal, malicious, and harmful electronic content including child pornography, spyware, viruses, trojan horses, phishing, botnet command and control servers, and pornography featuring violence, bestiality, and incest. ”

A San Jose, California federal judge, responding to the FTC’s lawsuit, has ordered (.pdf) upstream internet providers and data centers to stop servicing the company, also known as Pricewert, which is based in Oregon. Itss operators live in Belize.

The company had thousands of servers in the San Jose area.

Many of the thousands of sites it... (rest at link)

Read more: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/06/feds-shutter-black-hat-isp/

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I tracked down one of the people behind the warranty calls a few months ago; he too was in Belize. I threatened to create a website and post all the information I'd gathered tracking him down if he didn't remove my number from the list. I haven't had a call since. Belize must be a scumbag haven...

[WhiteTara]

1. ewww. Who are these

people (and I use the term loosely)?

[pam4water]

2. The wannabe Nigeria of Central America?

[Triana]

3. 'rouge' web sites?

They were wearing Revlon blusher? :wtf:

I think they meant to write ROGUE. Jeeze.

[orleans]

4. post the info anyway. n/t

[hootinholler]

5. Sounds like the alt usenet feeds

Thanks for the article, I expect wired to get tech stuff right, I'll have to read it later.

-Hoot

[cdsilv]

6. Slashdot has more on this .....

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/06/04/1814201/FTC-Shuts-Down-Calif-ISP-For-Botnets-Child-Porn