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The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) discovered a fraud scheme in late-2018 through which 757,760 IPv4 addresses worth between $9,850,880 and $14,397,440 were fraudulently obtained.
ARIN is a nonprofit corporation which distributes Internet number resources such as IPv4, IPv6, and Autonomous System numbers to organizations throughout the United States, Canada, and Caribbean and North Atlantic islands.
"On May 1, 2019, ARIN obtained a final and very favorable arbitration award which included revocation of all resources issued pursuant to fraud and $350,000 to ARIN for its legal fees," says a press release issued by ARIN on May 13.
ARIN was able to uncover and revoke the IPv4 addresses obtained through the fraud scheme following the arbitration [PDF] in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, with the individual and the company behind the scheme being charged in federal court in a twenty-counts of wire fraud indictment.
As a Department of Justice (DoJ) press release issued today says, the two accused parties "created and utilized 'Channel Partners,' which purported to consist of several individual businesses, all of whom acquired the right to IP addresses from the American Registry of Internet Numbers (ARIN)."
Source: BleepingComputer
(Score: 3, Interesting) by pipedwho on Saturday May 18 2019, @10:38AM
So true. At one of the companies I contract for, when I'm on their premises I need to access their network. But, they block standard POP, IMAP, SMTP, and OpenVPN ports. I can't even check my emails without punching holes through their firewall. I have a combination of SSH port forwards and HTTPS SSL based VPN routes just to be able to simultaneously use their servers and still get my email. It's such a farce. They even have a CISCO box that tries to middle-man HTTPS connections. Fortunately, I have a separate Virtual Machine I can use to access their local servers that has the trust certificates, while the host doesn't trust their corporate certs, so can't be middle-manned.
Meanwhile, everyone just uses Google Drive or one of the less savoury file sharing sites to transfer files externally, or tethers to their phone to get around the firewalls. A massive waste of time, and does nothing but annoy people. It doesn't help that internal IT support is handled by a company in India. It can take a week to get access to a file that you're supposed to be using, when it would literally be a 10 second job for someone locally. But, hey, those Indians have full admin rights and can pretty much get to any file on any system if they knew what they were doing. Security theatre isn't just for the TSA.