It seems you cannot put a rogue network provider down. Intercage the not so legit network provider is back, this time with a new upstream provider.

 

Intercage's saviour this time is the IP transit provider UnitedLayer came some 36 hours after the last provider pulled the plug on Intercage. The move came after Intercage agreed to completely sever ties with Esthost, an Eastern European web host that has been associated with much of abusive traffic carried by Intercage.

It seems Esthost was responsible for 25 to 50 percent of revenue for Intercage and was also responsible for a significant number of the sites engaged in phishing, malware distribution and other illegal activities. So this could be a turning point for Intercage, this move could redeem them or break them.

In addition Intercage have announced they will be implementing a new system for handling abuse complaints, previously they relied on an email based system which obviously was inadequate.

This could be an risky move on the the part of UnitedLayer, within days of Pacific Internet Exchange providing transport for Intercage they had a block of around a 1,000 IP addresses within Spamhaus block lists. So a lot of the security industry will be watching every move made by Intercage closely and you can bet the slightest sign of things returning to the ways of the past and UnitedLayer will have the same troubles as PIE.

So for those watching, for abuse requests for UnitedLayer the email address is abuse at unitedlayer dot com.