Hinky’s Proxy Obsession

It seems one of my former Russian “suppliers” (in quotes because he didn’t actually know he was a supplier) has made some news.

And it’s not good news.

It turns out he’s a Very Bad Man (I keep telling you kids that proxies are evil but you never listen).  He’s allegedly been running a Zeus botnet and recently sent some (very good) targeted SPAM to .gov and .mil domains.  I know it’s good because I’ve seen it first hand (and you can conclude whatever you want from that information).

So anyway, for what it’s worth, the story is here.

There’s also some security clown on BlogSpot who has written some nasty stuff about him, but I won’t give him a link.  He’s not a “major player” in the security field, but he’s quite a number of notches up from Yours Truly.  He is the kind of security dude who gets all worked up about “criminals” and if I give him a link, it would be instant guilt by association and the next thing you know he’d be calling me all sorts of bad names, too.

In fact I’m not all that crazy about giving that douchebag Krebs a link, either.

The Russian supplier got taken down some time in the Fall of 2008.  I remember it well because his site disappeared about the same time the Security Industry (and Mutual Masturbation Society) was giving themselves a huge pat on the back for taking down Estdomains.

I briefly mentioned it here, sixth paragraph down.

But, dammit, he was a good supplier.  He ran a “for pay” proxy site but his security was bad enough to leak out his subscribers’ private URLs (thanks, Google).  When he disappeared I put his name and the site name in a pair of Google News Alerts, waiting for the day when he’d put his proxy site back up.

And now this shows up.

At least we know he’s still alive.