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Big Sky Services is an operation which acquires large amounts of IP addresses through various means, which are then leased to spammers. Partner in spam with Michael Persaud, Michael Jenkins / Inbox Beyond. Some methods that Big Sky uses to obtain IP addresses are: - Setting up fake "hosting" companies using false identities and Nevada PO boxes, and then justifying new IP allocations from ARIN for their non-existent "hosting" customers. This is very similar to how a company named "Micfo" is alleged to have operated. See: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sc/pr/charleston-man-and-business-indicted-federal-court-over-9m-fraud - Buying out the assets of defunct companies (including IP ranges) and then keeping up the appearance that the company is still in business, such as operating an old copy of the website, and impersonating the former owners. - Apparently hijacking dead IP ranges by announcing them through one of the previously mentioned fake "hosting" companies. - Apparently using a hijacked company's role accounts or domain to provide forged documents to upstream ISPs or RIRs when required. This is similar to how "Adconion Direct" is alleged to have operated, see: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/09/feds-allege-adconion-employees-hijacked-ip-addresses-for-spamming/ - Partnering with a Honduran individual or business that has the ability to obtain IP allocations directly from LACNIC, which are then used to spam. Some of the company names used by Big Sky Services to acquire ARIN allocations are: ACE COLOCATION, INC. (Liana Dunlap) All Nine Hosting, Inc. ALTEC IT, INC. APEX COMMUNICATIONS, INC. AURORA NETWORKING, INC. AVALANCHE NETWORKS, INC. AXIS NETWORKS, INC. BIG SKY SERVICES, INC. (Mark Wulff) BREAKAWAY INTERNET GROUP, INC. BRIGHTFINITY LLC Certified Host, LLC CLOUD HOLDINGS, LLC (Liana Dunlap) CONNECTIONET SOLUTIONS, INC. COSMIC IT SERVICES CORPORATION COUGAR COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION CRYSTAL CONNECTIONS CORPORATION Cyclone Networking, LLC DASH SYSTEMS, INC. DINO SOLUTIONS, INC. DIRECT IMPRESSION, INC. DIVINE HOSTING SERVICES, INC. EMPIRE WEB HOSTING, INC. EXTREME LINK CORPORATION Fast Lane Communications LLC FIBER ESSENCE, INC. Grand Web Solutions Inc. HALO COLOCATION LLC HOST TEMPLE, LLC INTERNET TECHNICAL SERVICES, LLC (Mark Wulff) LANSING TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION LAVANET CORPORATION LINKZONE, INC. LONG NETWORKING, INC. MEGA COLOCATION INC METROGLOBE, INC. MT TECHNOLOGY, INC. NAQUE IT GROUP CORPORATION NETEX ONLINE SERVICES, INC. NETWIDE CORPORATION NEUTRON TECH SERVICES CORPORATION ONE WORLD TELECOM CORPORATION OPTIMUM TIER, INC. PARAMOUNT TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION PATRIOT WEB SOLUTIONS LLC POWELL HOSTING, INC. PRECISION TECHNOLOGY, INC. PRESTIGE CONNECTION CORPORATION PRIMELINK SERVICES LLC QUANTACT HOSTING SOLUTIONS, INC. ROYAL WEB SOLUTIONS CORPORATION Sparrowise Technology LLC STRATA1 LINK CORPORATION THUNDER IT SERVICES, INC. Triumph Networking LLC Ultra Hosting VERTICAL SOLUTIONS VIKING WEB SOLUTIONS, INC. VOYAGE TECHNOLOGIES, INC. Zenith Networking LLC Formerly legitimate ISPs now controlled by Big Sky Services and used for spamming: GETNET, INC. INTELLIGENCE NETWORK ONLINE, INC. / INTELLIGENCE NETWORK, LLC NETIN.COM, INC. Speedsite Online ThoughtPort Networking Svcs US Net Incorporated VRX NETWORK SERVICES, INC. IP ranges seem to have been hijacked from some of these companies: CSC Holdings Inc. Inform, Ltd. Process Control Systems, Inc. Retix (confirmed hijack) Union Carbide Corporation (confirmed hijack) Vitalink Communications Corporation Bogons (unallocated IP space used to send illegal spam) Company names used to acquire LACNIC IP ranges (mostly Honduras): CLNETWORKS SA Corporación Dana S.A. Corporacion Laceibanetsociety Grupo Financiero Invermexico S.A. HOST PARA TU VIDA S.A. INFORMATICA DE HONDURAS S.A. My Tech BZ PrimeTel Services Inc. Soluciones Favorables TODAS LAS REDES SA Udasha S.A. See the individual ROKSO record for a company for detailed information about that company's operations. |
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The Register of Known Spam Operations (ROKSO) collates information and evidence on entities with a history of spamming or providing spam services, and entities affiliated or otherwise connected with them, for the purpose of assisting ISP Abuse Desks and Law Enforcement Agencies. |
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Big Sky Services / Corespace Index
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