AS 27595 Atrivo / Intercage Goes Dark …

http://rbnexploit.blogspot.com/
Not the end, not the beginning of the end, but perhaps the end of the beginning.
As from today the Internet moved to being is a little safer, as Atrivo goes dark. It is pleasing to report the last remaining peer routing Atrivo (AS 27595 Atrivo/ Intercage), ‘Pacific Internet Exchange’ (PIE) was withdrawn at 2:35am EST Sunday Sept 21st 2008.

http://cidr-report.org/cgi-bin/as-report?as=AS27595&v=4&view=2.0

Report for AS27595

Name

INTERCAGE – InterCage, Inc.
NOT Announced

This AS is not currently used to announce prefixes in the global routing table, nor is it used as a visible transit AS.

Prefixes added and withdrawn by this origin AS in the past 7 days.

– 64.28.176.0/20 Withdrawn
– 67.210.0.0/21 Withdrawn
– 67.210.8.0/22 Withdrawn
– 67.210.14.0/23 Withdrawn
– 69.22.162.0/23 Withdrawn
– 69.22.168.0/21 Withdrawn
– 69.22.184.0/22 Withdrawn
– 69.31.64.0/20 Withdrawn
– 69.50.160.0/19 Withdrawn
– 85.255.113.0/24 Withdrawn
– 85.255.114.0/23 Withdrawn
– 85.255.116.0/22 Withdrawn
– 85.255.120.0/23 Withdrawn
– 85.255.122.0/24 Withdrawn
– 216.255.176.0/20 Withdrawn
– 216.255.176.0/22 Withdrawn
– 216.255.180.0/22 Withdrawn
– 216.255.184.0/22 Withdrawn
– 216.255.188.0/22 Withdrawn

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/22/intercage_goes_dark/

“This is an excellent example of community effort involving a wide cross section of anti-spammers, malware, and botnet researchers, journalists, and Internet network operators," an entry on the Russian Business Network blog stated. The entry included a photo of mock tombstone bearing the epitaph “RIP Atrivo. Here lies RBN USA?"