[HN Gopher] German Police Raid DDoS-Friendly Host 'FlyHosting' ___________________________________________________________________ German Police Raid DDoS-Friendly Host 'FlyHosting' Author : todsacerdoti Score : 77 points Date : 2023-03-31 18:37 UTC (4 hours ago) (HTM) web link (krebsonsecurity.com) (TXT) w3m dump (krebsonsecurity.com) | greyface- wrote: | Looks like RIPE is revoking their ASN: $ whois -h | whois.ripe.net AS202437 [...] aut-num: | AS202437 as-name: FLYHOSTING remarks: | ------------------------------------------------------------- | remarks: This internet resource will be deregistered by 9 | June 2023. remarks: | ------------------------------------------------------------- | [...] last-modified: 2023-03-31T13:34:39Z | | There's no equivalent remark on their IP space (185.132.53.0/24 | and 2a0f:9400:6119::/48) yet. | erulabs wrote: | fly.io's evil twin :O | beauHD wrote: | > _FlyHosting, a dark web offering_ | | And then: | | > _An ad for FlyHosting posted by the the user "bnt" on the now- | defunct cybercrime forum BreachForums_ | | So we have a dark web 'offering' advertising on a clearnet forum. | This is a conflict of interests IMHO. You're either fully | operating on the darkweb or you're not. Clearnet e-crime sites | are famously de-anonymized. It just takes a payment from PayPal | registered in your legal name to buy hosting services, and boom: | you've been decloaked by the authorities. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-03-31 23:00 UTC)