Blackholes and IXs and Completing the Attack.

Roland Dobbins rdobbins at cisco.com
Sun Feb 3 01:45:30 UTC 2008



On Feb 3, 2008, at 4:50 AM, Paul Ferguson wrote:

> We (Trend Micro) do something similar to this -- a black-hole BGP
> feed of known botnet C&Cs, such that the C&C channel is effectively
> black-holed.

What's the trigger (pardon the pun, heh) and process for removing IPs  
from the blackhole list post-cleanup, in Trend's case?

Is there a notification mechanism so that folks who may not subscribe  
to Trend's service but who are unwittingly hosting a botnet C&C are  
made aware of same?

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