Wouldn't it be interesting if we could set up some kind of central "Tor
Abuse Center" where all the complaints go, and all the relay operators can
help respond to them. I suppose it would be pretty chaotic though...

On Oct 4, 2016 11:18 AM, "pa011" <pa...@web.de> wrote:

> Yes its ISP - plus 10 times more fire-power both, Markus and me
> which is 10 times more work, sadly :-(
>
>
> Am 04.10.2016 um 18:12 schrieb Markus Koch:
> > Short answer: ISP
> >
> > I got 2 abuse mails (1 false positive) from Hostwinds in 4 months and
> > I get weekly mass reports from DigitalOcean.
> > And the thing that pisses me off is: Its all bots or Tax spam or other
> > stuff I got weeks/months ago. Different day, same shitty abuse mail.
> >
> > Markus
> >
> >
> > 2016-10-04 18:03 GMT+02:00 Tristan <supersluet...@gmail.com>:
> >> I don't know what I'm doing different, because I only got 2 complaints
> in
> >> the last 2 months, and that was for SSH and SQL stuff.
> >>
> >>
> >> On Oct 4, 2016 11:01 AM, "pa011" <pa...@web.de> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Me too Markus -could fill a folder with that tax issue :-((
> >>> Costing a lot of time to answer and restrict the IPs
> >>>
> >>> Plus my ISP moaning with good reason: "It's not just about you, but
> you're
> >>> giving a bad reputation to one /21 and one /22 subnet. That's ~ 3000
> IPs
> >>> which are potentionaly endagered to be marked as source of malicious
> content
> >>> / blacklisted / whatever ... so you see, this is quite critical for
> us."
> >>>
> >>> Am 04.10.2016 um 17:48 schrieb Markus Koch:
> >>>> same shit here:
> >>>>
> >>>> Dear User,
> >>>> We are contacting you because of unusual activity coming from your IP
> >>>> address towards the IT infrastructure of the European Commission.
> >>>> In specific, since 03/10/2016, IP addresses 95.85.45.159 &
> >>>> 104.236.225.19 of Digital Ocean, located in the Netherlands (NL) and
> >>>> the USA respectively, have submitted a significantly large number of
> >>>> invalid VAT number requests as compared to the total number of
> >>>> requests (89,59% & 89,96% respectively) towards VAT numbers from a
> >>>> multiple of EU member States (MS) through the VIES on the Web service
> >>>> (http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/). For more information on
> >>>> Invalid VAT number requests please refer to FAQ, questions 7, 11, 12,
> >>>> 13 and 20 of the VIES on the WEB site
> >>>> (http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/faq.html).
> >>>> The scope of our team is to monitor on a daily basis the performance
> >>>> of the VIES-on-the-Web (VoW) service in order to ensure its
> >>>> performance in accordance with the standards agreed upon between EU's
> >>>> Directorate General for Taxation and Customs Union (DG TAXUD) and the
> >>>> EU Member States.
> >>>> Our objective is to secure constant and uninterrupted availability and
> >>>> flow of traffic (requests for VAT validation) at all times.
> >>>> Under this framework, our team intervenes whenever there is out of the
> >>>> ordinary, unusual and potentially suspicious use of the system that
> >>>> violates the rules of use as they are stated in the Specific
> >>>> disclaimer for this service, which is available at the VoW site
> >>>> (http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/disclaimer.html).
> >>>> Consequently, in order to allow flawless use of the service, we were
> >>>> obliged to block the access to VIES on the Web for the IP address
> >>>> 88.198.110.130.
> >>>> Following our action, we would like to know if you are aware of this
> >>>> situation. Furthermore, your cooperation and contribution is necessary
> >>>> in order to determine the reason for this occurrence.
> >>>> Please inform us if this behaviour is normal and if such, how often it
> >>>> should occur; we would then take action to unblock the traffic coming
> >>>> from the corresponding IP address assuming you will agree to follow a
> >>>> set ITSM VIES/Web Team
> >>>> "ITSM2 is a contracted support partner for the IT Service Management
> >>>> of the European Commission.
> >>>> This e-mail is a reply to your message sent to the
> >>>> taxud-vies...@ec.europa.eu<mailto:taxud-vies...@ec.europa.eu> e-mail.
> >>>> Answers provided by the contactor are on behalf and according to
> >>>> policy guidelines of DG TAXUD, but not binding for the European
> >>>> Commission."
> >>>>
> >>>> I am so done with it, I added
> >>>>
> >>>> ExitPolicy reject 147.67.136.103 # TAX SPAM
> >>>> ExitPolicy reject 147.67.136.21  # TAX SPAM
> >>>> ExitPolicy reject 147.67.119.103  # TAX SPAM
> >>>> ExitPolicy reject 147.67.119.3  # TAX SPAM
> >>>> ExitPolicy reject 147.67.136.3  # TAX SPAM
> >>>> ExitPolicy reject 147.67.119.21  # TAX SPAM
> >>>>
> >>>> Thats going on for months now and by all means, this is not free
> speech
> >>>> ...
> >>>>
> >>>> Markus.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> 2016-10-04 17:42 GMT+02:00 pa011 <pa...@web.de>:
> >>>>> Am 04.10.2016 um 16:48 schrieb krishna e bera:
> >>>>>> On 04/10/16 08:48 AM, pa011 wrote:
> >>>>>>> One of my main ISP is going mad with the number of abuses he gets
> >>>>>>> from my Exits (currently most on port 80).
> >>>>>>> He asks me to install "Intrusion Prevention System Software" or
> >>>>>>> shutting down the servers.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> You can first ask him for a copy of the complaints in order to
> >>>>>> understand what sort of alleged abuses are taking place.  Are the
> >>>>>> complaints about spam or scraping or web server exploits or
> something
> >>>>>> else?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I do get a copy of every complaint - they are unfortunately:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> - Http browser intrucion  -
> >>>>> /var/log/apache2/other_vhosts_access.log:soldierx.com:80
> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx - -
> >>>>> [30/Sep/2016:11:14:34 -0400] "HEAD / HTTP/1.0" 302 192 "-"
> "Mozilla/5.0
> >>>>> (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; nl; rv:1.8.1.12)
> >>>>> Gecko/20080201Firefox/2.0.0.12"
> >>>>>
> >>>>> - invalid VAT number requests
> >>>>>
> >>>>> -recorded connection attempt(s) from your hosts to our honeypots
> >>>>>
> >>>>> - Issue: Source has attempted the following botnet activity: Semalt
> >>>>> Referrer    Spam Tor Exit Bot
> >>>>>
> >>>>> - botnet drone|Description: Ramnit botnet victim connection to
> sinkhole
> >>>>> details,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> - attackers used the method/service: *imap*
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> You can change your exit policy to reduce likelihood of complaints:
> >>>>>> https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tips-running-exit-node
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I know, but I hardly like to block port 80
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>> As far as I understand implementing such a software is not going
> >>>>>>> together with Tor - am I right?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> If your exit nodes tamper with traffic in any way they will be
> >>>>>> labelled
> >>>>>> as Bad Exit. (Tor tries to be net neutral.)
> >>>>>> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/badRelays
> >>>>>>
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