Re: [nanog] abuse of abuse notices

2024-12-20 Thread Calvin Judy via NANOG
It's not a new vector, but it's not super common either. I wrote about it back in August of 2022, Hetzner's automated abuse system was being used as a denial of service vector, as the malicious actor just spoofed the victim IP(s) toward their network, and the abuse reports were automatically sen

Re: [nanog] abuse of abuse notices

2024-12-19 Thread nanog
There was also the attack on the Tor network a few months ago. In that case I spoke to the "security" company that was sending the abuse notices to my provider - and they confirmed that they know the notices are bullshit, they acknowledge that if they cause financial losses I might be able to w