Well , this is adequate parts frightening and irritating : malware writers and their lot have been buying up data sum and getting approved for large blocks of IP blank space . What ’s that mean ? That they can moderately much run rearing .
While local register are hypothecate to screen IP applications , in some parts of the world * cough * Eastern Europe * cough * there ’s not much of a vetting process . The result is that criminals can spam off while victims have no hosting supplier or ISP to complain to . And when the corrupt IP finally does get shut down — by being in effect quarantined by other ISPs and security folk — the bad guys just walk away , leave it to rot until a legitimate stage business can come in and start it back up again .
The fight against botnets and malware is one where we ’re outspent and undermanned , and if we do n’t hurry up to germinate with the other team ’s scheme , we ’re all in a heap of trouble . [ Threat PostviaBoing Boing ]
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