For the first time, the Federal Trade Commission is shuttering an internet service provider it alleges, “recruits, knowingly hosts, and actively participates in the distribution of illegal, malicious and harmful electronic content” such as botnets and child porn.
The company, doing business as 3fn.net and APS Telecom, “actively recruited” to its hosting service thousands of “rouge” and “black hat” web sites distributing “illegal, malicious, and harmful electronic content including child pornography, spyware, viruses, trojan horses, phishing, botnet command and control servers, and pornography featuring violence, bestiality, and incest. ”
A San Jose, California federal judge, responding to the FTC’s lawsuit, has ordered (.pdf) upstream internet providers and data centers to stop servicing the company, also known as Pricewert, which is based in Oregon. Its operators live in Belize.
The company had thousands of servers in the San Jose area.
Get Out of Dodge!
Feds Shutter ‘Black Hat’ ISP
Source/Full Story: Wired.com
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