Comments on: Infamous Russian malware gang vanishes

Trend Micro claims the Russian Business Network suddenly dropped off the Internet, but the group may have resurfaced in Asia.

[Lee in San Diego]

Too bad

When I read the headlines my first thought was that Putin threw
them into the gulag.

[wbenton]

Blacklisting them does little good

When one gets on a blacklist, they're only stopped from using one ISP's network to do their dirty deeds.

As soon as they're blacklisted, they'll just set up shop elsewhere... as seems to be the case here... in Asia.

Now if the parties invoved had been jailed... that would have stopped them. But apparently, all that was done was a blacklist so they'll be back up and operational in NO TIME!

So DID THEY VANISH? Only from their current IP address. DID THEY TOTALLY DISAPPEAR? (* ROFLOL *) I highly doubt it.

Next time, they'll resurface with a double access account such that if another ISP cuts them off... they'll still be in business with a secondary ISP in no time flat.

They learned that lesson this time around. Next time... they'll have wised up a bit making it harder to stop them!

FWIW

[Leria]

The Blacklist won't prevent them

From getting hosting under another assumed name either. It could just be, as the article said, that they have decided to 'lay low' after their government supporters told them to, or they would withdraw their support.

[t8]

The iframe tag

The iframe tag is not standard HTML and was created by the company that is responsible for more vulnerabilities than any other.

You guessed it. None other than Microsoft.

They can't help but create vulnerabilities in their code it seems.

[techfan_08]

pretty amazing!

' t8' you have hit the nail right on the head, Like the RBN their need for greed is so great they make mistakes but with m-soft it costs us. Every time they rush out a new piece of faulty code we pay for it.

[clamenza]

Putin and the Orthodox Church are almost inseparable these days. Wonder how the religious types sleep at night.