{"id":15829,"date":"2016-01-13T20:25:05","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T02:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15829"},"modified":"2016-01-13T20:25:05","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T02:25:05","slug":"verizon-routing-millions-of-ip-addresses-for-cybercrime-gangs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15829","title":{"rendered":"Verizon Routing Millions of IP Addresses for Cybercrime Gangs"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Because spammers can&#8217;t easily obtain new IP addresses through legitimate means, they frequently resort to stealing IP address blocks that are dormant and aren&#8217;t being utilized by the rightful owners. There is a thriving black market in IP addresses; spammers don&#8217;t care whether the source of their IP addresses is legitimate or even legal. A cybercriminal that can steal a large IP address block (for example, a \/16 or 65,536 IP addresses) can generate thousands of dollars per month.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spamhaus.org\/news\/article\/726\/\">Verizon Routing Millions of IP Addresses for Cybercrime Gangs<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because spammers can&#8217;t easily obtain new IP addresses through legitimate means, they frequently resort to stealing IP address blocks that are dormant and aren&#8217;t being utilized by the rightful owners. There is a thriving black market in IP addresses; spammers &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15829\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[601,996,1018,613],"class_list":["post-15829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networking","tag-bgp","tag-routing-tables","tag-spam","tag-verizon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15830,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15829\/revisions\/15830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}