Russian Business Network study - bizeul.org
Russian Business Network study - bizeul.org
Russian Business Network study - bizeul.org
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RBN <strong>study</strong> – before and after<br />
David Bizeul<br />
Abstract:<br />
There are some places in the world where life is dangerous. Internet has some dark zones too and RBN is one of them.<br />
RBN stands for <strong>Russian</strong> <strong>Business</strong> <strong>Network</strong> and it’s a nebulous <strong>org</strong>anisation which aims to fulfil cyber crime.<br />
This document brings some enlightenment on RBN activities and tries to detail how it works. Indeed RBN has many<br />
constituents and it’s hard to have a precise idea on the goal of some of them and the way they’re linked with other<br />
constituents.<br />
There are some countermeasures available but none makes sense for home user or even companies. Only ISPs, IXPs<br />
and internet regulators can help mitigating risks originating from RBN and other malicious groups.<br />
UPDATE: recently (2007-11-04), RBN has disappeared (temporarily) from the Internet because some of the<br />
suggestions made in this document have been enforced by some ISPs. This <strong>study</strong> has been made before RBN<br />
vanished; it explains what RBN is/was and how it might evolve. This orange UPDATE flag indicates that information has<br />
been added at the last minute to cover the RBN disappearing.<br />
Some parts of this report may contain harmful links. Use it at your own risks.<br />
Some of the links inside this document might have become unavailable since the writing.<br />
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