Hacking Team Used Spammer Tricks to Resurrect Spy Network
Summary: Leaked Hacking Team emails analyzed by OpenDNS Security Labs show that in 2013 the company and Italy's Carabinieri military police used BGP hijacking to reclaim control of spyware servers after their host Santrex shut down. The hijack let them announce dormant Internet address ranges and migrate the malware control server to another network, and the article says nobody detected it at the time.
What you should know: A government customer redirected Internet routes to regain command of remote-access Trojans, and the routing system raised no objection - the same weakness spammers have exploited against unannounced address ranges for years.
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