Verizon Routing Millions of IP Addresses for Cybercrime Gangs

[J65nko]

From https://www.spamhaus.org/news/articl...bercrime-gangs

Researchers at The Spamhaus Project have identified over 4 MILLION IP addresses currently in the hands of American cybercriminals that are routed by US network operator Verizon Communications, which is currently by far the largest single source of snowshoe spam in operation today. We also will mention that at the time of this article, Verizon has more than 80 SBL listings and ranks sixth in our "The World's Worst Spam Support ISPs" list. Being on this list is not new to Verizon, but it has been some years since their concern for security/abuse issues has been this poor.

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Update 2016-02-01

As of 2016-Jan-23, the problem described in this article seems to have been resolved. Verizon has dropped the announcements of the suspect IP address ranges. Unfortunately, Verizon's ranking as one of the Top-10 worst spam-support ISPs has still not changed.