The cyber hackers have left St. Petersburg to move its business to other countries.
By: Peter Franklin
Published: Nov 9, 2007
Updated: Sep 2, 2010
The Russian Business Network (RBN), recently making headlines for the massive amounts of malicious and criminal content passing through its servers, has suddenly moved it's St. Petersburg base to other countries.
According to Trend Micro, the hackers now have new chunks of IP addresses, with RBN-like activity developing on newly registered blocks of Chinese and Taiwanese IP addresses with phrases like, "Great locale for a proxy Estonian webwar attack" and "The CHINESE are launching cybarmageddon!"
{slot15}Some security watchers have suggested that the shutdown may have been imposed by upstream service providers removing connections to the so-called 'bulletproof hosting' service, and that criminal customers have taken their business elsewhere.
With the RBN thought to be closely linked to the 'Storm Worm' attack, others have speculated that the move may have been planned as part of another stage of evolution from one of the biggest and most serious threats for some time.
The RBN is a highly segmented, loosely affiliated criminal organization that specializes in virtually every aspect of online crime, with specialized work being handed out piecemeal to guns for hire, whether it's money laundering, money mule activity, child porn site hosting, search engine optimization for raising page rankings, bulletproof hosting, credit card information theft or raiding of bank accounts.
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