ISP knocked offline for tolerating hackers and spammers

Infamous ISP Intercage (also known as Atrivo) has been knocked off line. Their upstream provider, Pacific Internet Exchange terminated their service. Intercage’s president, Emil Kacperski, blames Spamhaus. Spamhaus, an anti-spam organization that puts together a widely used blacklist, has been very critical of Intercage for years. It placed Pacific Internet Exchange on its blacklist on September 12th, and although a PIE spokeperson refused comment, it’s highly likely they cut off Intercage as a result,

Intercage has been dubbed a “major hub of cybercrime” , with 78% of its domains and mail servers used for malicious purposes. Kacperski has ignored complaints about that activity for the past 5 years.

“His network was used for very clearly hostile criminal activity. I’m not aware of any legitimate customers,” said Matt Jonkman, an independent researcher who contributed to a white paper on Intercage.

Spamhaus has reported more than 350 cybercrime hosting incidents on Intercage in just the past 3 years. Cybercrime includes spamming, hacking, malware, internet fraud, phishing, and more.

Kacperski said he is looking for a new provider and doesn’t know how long it will take. Let’s hope there are no providers out there willing to help him put his cybercrime haven back online!

Read[PC World]