Networking boffins detect wide abuse of IPv4 addresses bought on secondary market

Suggests poorly-regulated address-marts are favorites of folks who want ‘clean’ addresses that give botnets a break

Malicious actors are abusing the secondary market for IPv4 addresses, according to Lancaster University lecturer Vasileios Giotsas, University College London research and teaching assistant and postdoctoral fellow Ioana Livadariu from Norway's Simula Metropolitan Center for Digital Engineering.…

via The Register - Data Centre: Networks
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