California based network provider Intercage has finally gone dark after weeks of criticism that is had become home for many sites engaged in phishing, malware distribution and various other illegal activities.

 

Pacific Internet Exchange (PIE) appeared to save Intercage from going dark last week after Intercage's long time upstream providers pulled services for the rogue network provider.  However, Intercage were so grateful they got a block of IP addresses registered to PIE listed in the Spamhaus block list within days of their new provider providing bandwidth for them. Luckily for PIE they managed to clear up the entry SBL679066 with Spamhaus and they have been removed from the block list.

So Intercage finally went dark on Saturday night after PIE pulled the plug, finally stemming the tide of attacks to the law abiding public from hosts on the Intercage network.  

This latest round of troubles for Intercage came after Security Researchers from HostExploit issued a report that took a random sampling of 2,600 addresses hosted by Intercage. The addresses contained 7,340 malicious web links, 910 infected websites, 310 malicious binaries, and 113 botnet command and control servers. You can read their full report here.

It looks like another battle won in the cyberwar against the bad guys of the Internet. However, the war is far from over, afterall we'll still wake to masses of Spam email trying to sell Viagra, VXPL and all manner of drugs, then there will be the mails trying to steal our Paypal, Google or Bank Account details and then finally those emails with a nice payload attached that will when run take over your PC and have it reporting to a new master, at least now it will not be a master hosted on an Intercage hosted system.