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3FN Ordered Closed; Assets to Be Sold by Receiver

By Rhett Pardon
Wednesday, May 19, 2010

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Computer servers and other assets owned by 3FN.net parent Pricewert will be sold by a court-appointed receiver, a federal judge has ordered.
In addition, U.S. Judge Ronald Whyte ordered that the web-hosting company — which also operated the Triple Fiber Network, APX Telecom and APS Communications — be permanently closed and for its operators to turn over $1.08 million in illegal profits to the FTC.

"These experts had analyzed data derived from Internet searches which establish that defendant, an Internet service provider, was engaged in widespread illegal activity," Whyte wrote. "There seems to be little doubt from the information provided that Pricewert functioned primarily as an internet service provider for illegal activity."

There were a "relatively small number of apparently legitimate customers" of the company, wrote Whyte, who last year ordered the ISP’s upstream providers and data centers to disconnect the company's servers from the Internet.

The FTC last year charged that 3FN actively recruited criminals to distribute spyware, viruses, Trojan horses, phishing emails and porn featuring children and animals. The company advertised its services in a variety of underground sites, including a chat room for spammers.

Regulators also alleged that the distribution of illegal and malicious content and deployment of botnets compromised thousands of computers. The FTC said that 3FN operated large botnets and recruited bot herders to run the networks of compromised computers.

The FTC said that transcripts of IM logs show the company's senior executives discussing the configuration of botnets with bot herders. More than 4,500 malicious software programs were controlled by command-and-control servers hosted by 3FN.

The FTC shut down the company through an injunction in July, costing hundreds of its clients grief and loss of income.

One adult company that was affected by the FTC's July shutdown was the parent company of of ETU-Cash.com and Cash.Pornocruto.es.

New Concept Business, which operates the two affiliate programs and nearly two dozen adult websites with mostly sexual role-playing fantasy themes, was confronted with inoperable and truncated websites, destruction of webmaster program relationships and loss of funds from chargebacks and refunds.

New Concept Business said at the time it lost about $5,000 a day after the shutdown because most of its contents was hosted on its Pricewert's servers. It later was able to repair all of its websites' operations.

Whyte, in the $1.08 million forfeiture ruling against Pricewert, said that the company "has knowingly refused to participate in this litigation and it should not benefit nor be in a position to complain about the weakness of the FTC's calculation when it has failed to supply the records it was ordered to provide."

Whyte also pointed to evidence that suggests Pricewert was hosting illegal activities.

"The number of IP addresses controlled by defendant that are affiliated with illegal activity appears to far outnumber the IP addresses of legitimate customers using Pricewert's services," he wrote. "An estimate that over half of the users were connected with illegal activity seems extremely conservative."

But Whyte noted that Pricewert had a handful of legitimate clients like New Concept Business, which suffered as a result of the injunction against Pricewert.

"[T]here was a relatively small number of apparently legitimate customers who used Pricewert as their service provider," he wrote. "This came to the court's attention when some of those customers contacted the court after the Pricewert servers were shut down.

"Therefore, it seems clear that a portion of the monthly profits of $30,000 reportedly realized by Pricewert were realized from legitimate business activity."

пресс-релиз фтс http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2010/05/perm.shtm

FTC Permanently Shuts Down Notorious Rogue Internet Service Provider
3FN Service Specialized in Hosting Spam-Spewing Botnets, Phishing Websites, Child Pornography, and Other Illegal, Malicious Web Content
At the Federal Trade Commission’s request, a district court judge has permanently shut down a rogue Internet Service Provider that recruited, hosted, and actively participated in the distribution of spam, spyware, child pornography, and other malicious and illegal content. The ISP’s computer servers and other assets have been seized and will be sold by a court-appointed receiver, and the operation has been ordered to turn over $1.08 million in ill-gotten gains to the FTC.

In June 2009, the FTC charged that 3FN, which does business under a variety of names, actively recruited and colluded with criminals to distribute harmful electronic content including spyware, viruses, trojan horses, phishing schemes, botnet command-and-control servers, and pornography featuring children, violence, bestiality, and incest. The FTC alleged that the defendant advertised its services in the darkest corners of the Internet, including a chat room for spammers.

The FTC complaint alleged that 3FN actively shielded its criminal clientele by either ignoring take-down requests issued by the online security community, or shifting its criminal elements to other Internet protocol addresses it controlled to evade detection.

The FTC also alleged that 3FN deployed and operated botnets – large networks of computers that have been compromised and enslaved by the originator of the botnet, known as a “bot herder.” Botnets can be used for a variety of illicit purposes, including sending spam and launching denial-of- service attacks. According to the FTC, the defendant recruited bot herders and hosted the command-and-control servers – the computers that relay commands from the bot herders to the compromised computers known as “zombie drones.”

Transcripts of instant-message logs filed with the district court show the defendants’ senior employees discussing the configuration of botnets with bot herders. And, in filings with the district court, the FTC alleged that more than 4,500 malicious software programs were controlled by command-and-control servers hosted by 3FN. This malware included programs capable of keystroke logging, password stealing, and data theft, programs with hidden backdoor remote control activity, and programs involved in spam distribution.

The FTC charged that 3FN’s distribution of illegal, malicious, and harmful content and deployment of botnets that compromised thousands of computers, harmed consumers and was an unfair practice, in violation of federal law.

On June 15, 2009 the court issued a preliminary injunction to prohibit 3FN’s illegal activities and require its upstream Internet providers and data centers to stop providing services to 3FN.

The court has now ordered a permanent bar on the illegal activities of 3FN and its agents and has appointed a receiver and instructed him to liquidate the operation’s assets.

The defendants named in the FTC’s complaint are Pricewert LLC, also doing business as 3FN.net, Triple Fiber Network, APS Telecom, APX Telecom, APS Communications, and APS Communication.

This case was brought with the invaluable assistance of NASA’s Office of Inspector General, Computer Crime Division; Gary Warner, Director of Research in Computer Forensics, University of Alabama at Birmingham; The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children; The Shadowserver Foundation; Symantec Corporation; and The Spamhaus Project.

The Federal Trade Commission works for consumers to prevent fraudulent, deceptive, and unfair business practices and to provide information to help spot, stop, and avoid them. To file a complaint in English or Spanish, visit the FTC’s online Complaint Assistant or call 1-877-FTC-HELP (1-877-382-4357). The FTC enters complaints into Consumer Sentinel, a secure, online database available to more than 1,800 civil and criminal law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and abroad. The FTC’s Web site provides free information on a variety of consumer topics.
MEDIA CONTACT:
Claudia Bourne Farrell
Office of Public Affairs
202-326-2181
STAFF CONTACT:
Ethan Arenson
Bureau of Consumer Protection
202-326-2204
(Civil Action No. C09 02407 RMW-RS)
(3fn perm inj.)

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