Dutch authorities have successfully disabled a huge malware-distributing botnet and brought about the arrest of its suspected mastermind in Armenia.
Known as Bredolab, the network constituted hundreds of thousands of compromised computers at any one time. Cybercriminals could then rent the botnet and distribute malware that captured sensitive user data, such as online banking log-ins and passwords.
Bredolab was controlled via servers rented from hosting provider Leaseweb in the Netherlands, which says it was first alerted by police in August 2010. The company was told to keep the servers running while a full investigation was conducted.
jdMorgan
3:24 pm on Oct 27, 2010 (gmt 0)
If LeaseWeb would simply monitor the number of 403 responses received by out-going requests from their servers, this problem could be significantly reduced (and maybe I could remove my blacklist entries covering all LeaseWeb server IP address ranges). Maybe they really don't know how bad their reputation is among Webmasters who make efforts to reduce abuse...
But to be fair, they're certainly not alone on the blacklists.
Jim
firefly1
11:43 am on Nov 8, 2010 (gmt 0)
LeaseWeb has one of the best global reputations for dealing with network badness see:
