Operation Synergia II took aim at phishing, ransomware, and information stealing.
Law enforcement took down 22 000 addresses.
That title doesn’t make any sense.
BGP hijacking is a way to do that. But the article nowhere suggests that happened.
“Infrastructure running on 22k ip addresses”. Either the authors are dumb, or they’re writing for a dumb audience.
The operation, which ran from the beginning of April through the end of August, resulted in the arrest of 41 people and the takedown of 1,037 servers and other infrastructure running on 22,000 IP addresses.
Let me unplug my router, then plug it back in. I’ll have a new IP address.
This reporting lacks understanding of the IP protocol.
theres fixed IP addresses that servers use, and dynamic IP addresses that consumers borrow.
