Link: Infamous Russian ISP behind Bank of India hack - ZDNet UK.
The service provider in question has developed a notorious reputation, with VeriSign classifying it as "the baddest of the bad" in the ISP world in June 2006.
According to a VeriSign spokesperson, the Russian Business Network (RBN) is different to other service providers because "unlike many ISPs that host predominately legitimate items, RBN is entirely illegal". (((Imagine if you were the *only legal guy* on the Russian Business Network. Maybe you're, like, a florist's shop or something.)))
"A scan of RBN and affiliated ISPs' net space conducted by VeriSign iDefense analysts failed to locate any legitimate activity. (((What – they don't even, like, troll MySpace? If you can call Rupert Murdoch "legitimate"))) Instead, [our] research identified phishing, malicious code, botnet command-and-control, denial-of-service attacks and child pornography on every single server owned and operated by RBN," the spokesperson said.
RBN almost exclusively attacks non-Russian financial institutions and its leaders' family ties with a "a powerful St Petersburg politician" effectively offer it immunity from prosecution, the spokesperson added. (((Here at BEYOND THE BEYOND, we'd sure like to know about that guy. "RBN," "Zhelatin Gang," the MPack group, the mysterious Petersburg political cover.... Leo Kuvayev, Yambo Financials in the Ukraine, and the gentleman named "Zliden" who allegedly owns and controls the "Storm Worm" aka "NuWar," "Peacomm" etc... if you have any loose ends to that ball of yarn, do let us know.)))
Patrik Runald, senior security specialist at F-Secure, said: "No one knows who the RBN is. (((Yet.))) They are a secret group based out of St Petersburg that appears to have political connections. The company doesn't legitimately exist. It's not registered and provides hosting for everything that's bad."
"Their network infrastructure is behind a lot of the bad stuff we're seeing and it has connections to the MPack Group [a well-known group of cybercriminals which used MPack software to steal confidential data]," said Runald....
