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by brodie78382 3336 days ago
Certain parts of the list of subnets avoided by Hajime strikes me as rather interesting...

Some countries:

- Ukraine; Region Vinnyts’ka Oblast’ /16

- Iran, Islamic Republic of; Region Tehran /16

- Germany Virtela Communications Inc Amsterdam, NL POP /16

- South Africa; Region Gauteng /16

Then:

- General Electric's /8

- both Hewlett-Packard's /8

- US Postal Service's /8

and finally all of the US Department of Defence (obviously)

I would have thought HP would be a goldmine seeing as they put anything and everything on public, proxied IP's. And why not avoid Xerox, Apple, and CIA subnets too while you're at it?

Krebs has a more detailed writeup on this for anyone interested in reading more: https://security.rapiditynetworks.com/publications/2016-10-1...