Malware: Russian hosting network running a protection racket

"The Russian Business Network, a notorious hacker and malware hosting network, runs a protection racket that extorts as much as $2,000 a month in fees for "protective Web services" from borderline sites, a researcher alleged today.
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Malware: Fight Malware With Exposure, Group Advises

"One of the best ways to fight the criminal malware networks that now populate the Internet might actually be the simplest - publicize their existence. That is one conclusion that to be drawn from a white paper published by a volunteer group, the Shadowserver Foundation, which assesses the activities of the Russian Business Network (RBN), a major crimeware hub which abruptly disappeared from the Internet in November, after its existence received worldwide publicity.
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Malware: An Inside Look at the Russian Business Network

"A new white paper published by the nonprofit botnet-tracker Shadowserver Foundation sheds some light on one segment of activity on the Russian Business Network (RBN). Shadowserver released its findings on malware associated with the so-called AS40989 group of interconnected IP networks on the RBN.
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