[145399] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Botnets buying up IPv4 address space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel jaeggli)
Fri Oct 7 14:39:44 2011
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 11:38:45 -0700
From: Joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: Arturo Servin <arturo.servin@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4AF3AAB1-5201-457B-9112-58CE2339EA5A@gmail.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 10/7/11 11:31 , Arturo Servin wrote:
>
> What do you mean with "purchasing or renting IPv4".
>
> Last time that I check it was not possible in the RIR world.
If you're not a legitimate business why would you bother with commonly
accepted policy?
> If you mean "hijacking" unused IPv4 space, that's another history.
the post fails entirely to cite actual examples, then goes off into the
weeds on domain name reputation.
> .as
>
> On 7 Oct 2011, at 15:11, Joly MacFie wrote:
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>> I'd welcome comments as to solutions to this. Or is it just scaremongering?
>>
>> j
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>
>> Date: Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 1:31 PM
>>
>> Botnets buying up IPv4 address space
>>
>> http://j.mp/nMJ5Lr (Threat Post)
>>
>> "Now, in one effort to get around these systems, some attackers are
>> taking advantage of the lack of IPV4 space by either purchasing or
>> renting blocks of IP space with good reputations that have been built
>> up over the course of several years. A number of legitimate trading
>> and auction sites have appeared as the IPV4 space became scarcer, and
>> the attackers have gotten involved as well, getting their hands on
>> known good IP blocks and using them for C&C or hosting malware."
>>
>> - - -
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>> --Lauren--
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