Leading Cybercrime Group Drops Off the Internet (for now)
The notorious Russian Business Network is no longer operational, at least not from their St. Petersburg base. The group provides some of the cybercrime infrastructure that enables other criminal groups to get up and running faster than otherwise possible. For example:
Dubbed “the mother of all cybercrime” by analysts, RBN specialises in providing services such as “bulletproof” website hosting to criminal groups. These sites, for which RBN charges around $600 a year, are largely used to publish illegal content and carry out scams on the public. Run through a complex network of front companies based in territories from Belize to Hong Kong, they are designed to thwart law authorities, according to security experts.
What they are up to now is open to conjecture.
“The speculation must be that RBN is reorganising,” said Raimund Genes, the chief technology officer of Trend Micro, a security group that has traced cyber attacks on corporate and government sites across Europe and US back to servers based in Panama and run by RBN.
Unusual bulk domain name registrations are showing up in Asia and some suspect this may be RBN moving to new territories.
What ever is happening, it is hard to imagine the group is out of business for good - their business is just to profitable.
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