RBN has suddenly gone offline

[tickler]

|thumbTrend Micro reports that Internet domains associated with the network went down at 7 pm pacific standard time on Tuesday, November 6 (3 am GMT Wednesday, November 7), taking with it a network provider accused of hosting some of the worst criminal activities the Internet has to offer|bananna|
http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?newsID=10589&pagtype=all

[Greenguy]

I was wondering why my submits went down, but the number of accepted sites remained the same :D

[Senator_x]

Too much money in it. Plus, the RU government needs it to test out new hacks and launch attacks. Should be up soon under a different name.

[Bobc01]

FFS if it's not a threat from zombies it's the fear the russians are gonna invade, Better start stock piling weapons next to the chainsaws just incase.

[Useless]

Time to wake up the bot and start deleting links, I'd bet.

[tickler]

And maybe on their way back!|club|

So you might want to setup those IP blocks.

Security firm Trend Micro said that Russian Business Network (RBN) dropped off the internet last Tuesday, and has predicted its emergence in a newly reinvigorated form somewhere in Asia.
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2203247/russian-hacker-network-goes

[koolkat]

I was wondering why my submits went down, but the number of accepted sites remained the same :DAll of those bullshit russian submits wer getting to be a pain in the ass. I had to add captcha to my submit page to stop them.
I don't really know if this issue would have slowed the submits on my site, but I'm glad it stopped!

[Bobc01]

If they do surface again, why can't they be stopped?

And how have they been allowed to get away with it before if it was known about all the crime.