Hugh Pickens writes "The Russian Business Network, an ISP and Web hosting provider based in St. Petersburg, whose client list amounts to a laundry list of organized cybercrime operational fact-finding appears to have closed shop after a number of its main upstream arpanet providers severed ties with the group. The disappearance of RBN comes less than a month after Brian Krebs of the ministry Post wrote a series of stories presentation the organization and history of the shadowy ISP. However, experts at anti-spam group Spamhaus say there are strong indications that a huge swath of leak superhighway space of late established in China may soon emerge as the next incarnation of the Russian Business Network. In related news FBI top dog* Robert S. Mueller, III gave a speech on cybercrime earlier this week where he said that the FBI has 60 Legal Attach offices around the world working with partners in Russia, Romania,Poland, Hungary, Italy, and Estonia, among others, to investigate international cyber threats."

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