Russian Business Network
The so-called Russian Business Network ( RBN ) is an Internet service provider based in Saint Petersburg, Russia . A large network of subsidiaries is based in the Seychelles , Panama , Turkey , the People's Republic of China and Great Britain, among others .
RBN computers are partially networked with those of companies such as AkiMon and SBT-Tel , whose uplink Silvernet has connections to large computer nodes such as MSK-IX .
Little is known about the provider. It is not a registered company, its owners are only known by the nicknames flyman and $ ash , and the only payment option is anonymous electronic transactions.
Links to organized cyber crime
The magazine C't assigns the provider to the group of rogue ISPs , who protect their criminal customers from access by judicial authorities and who continue to operate their services even if complaints pile up. The offerings of RBN customers include affiliate systems such as iFramecash.net and Rock-Phish-Crew . Among the used by RBN techniques include fast-flux - Botnets (change quickly) that IP traces are blurring. RBN uses malware such as MPack-Kit , Sturmwurm -Bot, Gozi -Bot, Torpig or 76Serve . This rentable bot army software is used to spy on credit card details and personal data for the purpose of identity theft .
The provider is accused of offering its services primarily to criminals and of tailoring them to their needs. Various attacks were carried out by computers in the RBN network or coordinated from there. The RBN will also operate servers from which phishing and spam emails and child pornography are distributed. The servers of kinox.to (a successor to kino.to ) are supposed to be at a company that, according to media reports, is connected to RBN.
In the Caucasus conflict in 2008 , access to many information technology systems, particularly in Georgia, was severely disrupted by RBN.
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- ↑ a b c c't , F. Faber: Under suspicion. A Russian gang is professionalizing the cybercrime business , c't 11/2008, p. 92ff
- ↑ a b David Bizeul: 70-page RBN study (PDF; 1.47 MB)
- ↑ Honeynet Project: Know Your Enemy: Fast-Flux Service Networks
- ^ Daniel Bachfeld: The "baddest of the baddies on the Internet" isolated on heise online, November 7, 2007
- ↑ Innovation in the underground on heise online, March 20, 2008
- ↑ http://www.focus.de/digital/internet/report-daten-fuer-den-staatsanwalt_aid_713131.html
- ↑ Peter-Michael Ziegler, (pmz / c't): Cyberwar in the Caucasus . In: heise online . August 10, 2008. Retrieved August 12, 2008.