BGP hijacker booted off the Internet's backbone A year-long effort to stop an accused “bad actor” who hijacked border gateway protocol (BGP) routes has borne fruit, with giant Hurricane Electric and Portugal's IPTelecom joining in cutting off an organisation called Bitcanal. Dyn detailed the process, which is nearing completion a year after German Internet exchange DE-CIX …
Like everyone on the planet I hate spam(the electronic kind).. So if this results in even a 5% reduction I am more than happy.
What I don't understand though is why it takes so long to get the wheels moving as proof would appear to be relatively simple to obtain.
Anyway cheers to the AntiSpammers of this world..
My feeling is that most spam is done by a handful of people. If you look at the spam logs closely you can pretty much tell when the spammers take holidays and aren't "working".
For me personally, January was quite interesting. The 1st through the 14th had a relatively low tiny level of spam (<20%) The 16th-19th had a big blip of 80%, which then dropped down to ~20% again until the 28th (interestingly a Sunday, which is unusual as weekends are normally dead quiet for spam) where for the next few days up to 94.67% of emails received were spam.
Almost as if somebody took a 14 day holiday, was back for a couple of days and then went off on holiday again, followed by coming back and unleashing a tsunami of spam that bordered on being a DDOS.
"Almost as if somebody took a 14 day holiday, was back for a couple of days and then went off on holiday again..."
So the authorities need to start sweeping up records from Trivago and the other travel aggregator sites for matching travel dates...? Don't give them ideas!
I think the main reason it takes so long is there's no central authority for these things. Each individual peering provider has to be independently convinced to cut them off. I think we should be glad that cutting a business off from the Internet is not something that people do lightly.
"Each individual peering provider has to be independently convinced to cut them off."
It's worse than that.
Engineering and security will cut them off and be overridden by sales forcing a reconnection, with management backing them up on pain of sacking.
The fact that these assholes don't pay their bills and cause massive loss of reputation never sinks in, the salestwats and managlement concerned almost always turn out to have had palms personally greased to ensure reconnection.
Pink contracts are most emphatically NOT a thing of the past - just better hidden.
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