FTC persuades court to shutter rogue ISP
Found on Security Focus on Wednesday, 04 November 2009
The takedown of the Internet service provider, Triple Fiber Network, comes after a months-long investigation by the FTC in collaboration with other government agencies and industry.
The takedown is an unprecedented move by the FTC and marks an escalation of the government and security community's investigations of the Internet service providers that facilitate online crime.
The ISP hosted the command-and-control servers for the Cutwail botnet, among others, according the security firm Symantec. The security company found more than 600 IP addresses controlled by 3FN that were also launching attacks.
Seems there is lots of money to make; otherwise it doesn't make much sense to run a company that gets taken down sooner or later. Not to mention the possible jail time and fines.