Bad Actors Part 4 - HostFresh

There was an excellent report published in 2008 by HostExploit that showed the connections between Atrivo and those for whom it provided downstream services. One of those such customers was a Chinese provider called HostFresh. I thought it might be interesting to look at two IP blocks which were previously part of the Atrivo network - 58.65.232.0/21 and 116.50.8.0/21 - but are now routed by others.

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Bad Actors Part 3 - Internet Path/Cernel

Much was made of the Intercage/Atrivo shutdown last year, which was a result of significant research by the security community, and tenacity by the Washington Post's Security Fix technical blog.  While a good chunk of the network was depeered, there are a few netblocks owned by "sister organizations" which remain routed.

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