Emerging Threats

1. Happy New Year!
(News/Latest)

... to gather stats on signature accuracy and trends. We saw Atrivo/Intercage and McColo go away. We've formed the Open Information Security Foundation to begin building a next generation network security ...

2. ICANN Terminates EstDomains!
(News/Latest)

As many of you know, EstDomains is/was one of the havens for malware and crime syndicates to register domain names. They used EstDomains because they could falsify their contact information making it difficult ...

3. Atrivo Offline!!!
(News/Latest)

  Atrivo, everyone's favorite source for malware, fake antivirus, spam and botnet controllers, is OFFLINE!!   Great news for sure! A very positive routing report is available here:   http://cidr-report.org/cgi-bin/as-report?as=AS27595 ...

4. Atrivo and ESTDomains
(News/Research)

... me to say that BandCon also has stopped providing connectivity to Atrivo/Intercage. From his e-mail: "Intercage, a new customer, was connected to the BandCon Network for total of about a week. Once ...

5. Atrivo Loses IP Space and Peering
(News/Research)

An update to our note about the Atrivo/Intercage report published last week.  http://www.emergingthreats.net/content/view/101/1/   Finally, a mark in the win column for the good guys!!! Brian ...

6. Atrivo, A Crime Safe Haven
(News/Research)

... "Intercage," has long been a major source of spyware, adware, viruses and fake anti-virus products. The report is an exhaustive and well-researched analysis of Atrivo and its operations. Some ...