[anti-abuse-wg] Massive prefix theft in AFRINIC - attributed to an insider
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Hank Nussbacher
hank at efes.iucc.ac.il
Wed Apr 15 20:10:17 CEST 2020
On 13/12/2019 13:38, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > In message <9c7d5885-f4e5-5c00-9523-bcc3a3b6a625 at efes.iucc.ac.il>, you wrote: > >> Again, great work Ron! > Thanks much Hank. > > I wish that I could get some journo in Israel to cover this, and maybe > go and put some questions to the man who ended up with most of this > looted IPv4 address space, i.e. a certain Mr. Elad Cohen (netstyle.co.il / > netstyleservers.com), a member in good standing of RIPE, of course. and now standing for the Executive Board: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/may-2020/confirmed-candidates -Hank > > I tried to make that happen, but got nowhere. > :-( > > Oh well, I gues that there are some different corruption stories that > are getting all of the ink these days in Israel... just as there are > here in the U.S., at present, I'm sorry to say. > > There's yet another member in good standing of RIPE whose fingerprints > are also all over this mess. I'll just have to hope that eventually > Interpol or Europol might take an interest in this case and maybe start > asking these guys some rather pointed questions about it all. > > That's the only hope, I'm afraid. I'm frankly not in the least bit > persuaded that RIPE will ever demonstratably give a shit about any of > this. The last time I looked, the various folks, mostly Russian, who > were running the networks responsible for the massive `3ve' clickfraud > scam... which I had also publicly outted before LE caught up to them... > were also all still members in good standing of RIPE, and those guys > were formally indicted by the U.S. DoJ: > > https://www.whiteops.com/press-releases/3ve-google-whiteops-online-fraud > https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/two-international-cybercriminal-rings-dismantled-and-eight-defendants-indicted-causing > > > Regards, > rfg > > > P.S. This stuff that took place down in the AFRINIC region arguably > isn't even on-topic for this list and/or this WG. It's kind-of like > "meta-abuse", or some such thing. Anyway, this isn't our usual spammers > and/or hackers story.
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