[Donuts]

These thugs have been doing more in the affiliate marketing arena, so I just wanted to raise a little awareness here concerning who they are.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Business_Network

They've got connections to some high up Russian politicians and last year began faking geo facades to better mask their location and organized structure.

They got caught pretending they were chinese hackers, a very believable ruse.

There are lots of good links about them on wikipedia and here's a brief mention, from last year, in the Washington Post:
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/secur...work_down.html

[Geno Prussakov]

Lived in St. Petersburg, Russia for the past 7 years, and never heard the name RBN. You live you learn... Nasty stuff.

Originally Posted by Donuts

They've got connections to some high up Russian politicians...

I've searched around and the only name I've found is some Polyakov. I know a cosmonaut by this name, but have never heard of a single politician by this name, especially among the "powerful and well-connected" ones. Does anyone see any more information on this?

Thanks for the heads-up, Donuts!

Geno

PS: Doing some additional research on it now. Will post my findings shortly.

[Geno Prussakov]

What media (and other resources) say on RBN:

* "Computer security experts call RBN 'the mother of cyber-crime'" [Komsomolskaya Pravda]

* St. Petersbrug Times on RBN

* The Times on RBN

* ZDNet.com on RBN

* RBN Exploit Blog - extremely good resource!

[Donuts]

Geno, follow link citations 10 and 12 in the wiki article.

Other okay links to read up on:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/...icleId=9046299
http://www.computerworld.com/action/...icleId=9047483
http://www.onestopclick.com/news/Rus..._18475422.html
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/ne...cle3424567.ece
http://rbnexploit.blogspot.com/
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/secur...usiness_n.html

These are good too:
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1...9289057,00.htm
http://www.economist.com/displaystor...ory_id=9723768