[pchelpers] News:Cybercrime's U.S. Hosts

2008-08-29 10:02 GMT, by Vincent Hanna
When cybercrime is mentioned it never takes long for Russia and the
Ukraine to enter the picture. However, while a lot of cybercriminals are
based in those countries, a lot of their infrastructure is housed in the
west, in the United States to be precise.

Without exception, all of the major security organizations on the
Internet agree that the 'Home' of cybercrime in the western world is a
place known as Atrivo/Intercage. We ourselves have not come to this
conclusion lightly but from many years of dealing with criminal
operations hosted by Atrivo/Intercage, gangs of cybercriminals - mostly
Russian and East European but with several US online crime gangs as well
- whose activities always lead back to servers run by Atrivo/Intercage.
We have lost count of the times we have tracked a major virus botnet's
"command and control" to Atrivo/Intercage servers, readers can view here
some of the current and historic SBL records for Atrivo for a taste of
what has been happening in this network. At almost every Internet
security conference, or law enforcement seminar on cyber-crime, a
presentation will detail some attack, exploit, phish or financial crime
that has some nexus at Atrivo/Intercage.

More here:
http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=636
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