[191506] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "Defensive" BGP hijacking?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Rose)
Sun Sep 18 23:39:41 2016
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From: Sean Rose <onetrueseanrose@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2016 23:32:57 +0200
To: nanog@nanog.org, abuse@staminus.net
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I know Bryant Townsend (ex staminus employee), Marshal Webb (aka m_nerva,
lulzsec informant) and others from backconnect.net performed a similar BGP
hijacking against staminus earlier this year.
https://bgpstream.com/event/21051
Shortly afterwards, on 10th of march a zine is released leaking the
Staminus user database and contents of several customer servers.
The times aren't the only interesting factor here, even the format of the
release just screams m_nerva. Zines are very rare these days. So rare in
fact that the last similar zine before the staminus hack was released in
2013 by HTP, a hacker group m_nerva was loosely affiliated with during it's
early days.
I *strongly* believe Bryant Townsend and Marshal Webb hacked Staminus and
produced the "Fuck 'em all." zine
Sean Rose
