In an unprecedented case, the Federal Trade Commission stepped in last Tuesday and shut down a web hosting provider in California.
Despite much positive press and a relatively long-standing history as a reputable web hosting services provider based in Oregon, Triple Fiber Network (DBA 3fn.net and Pricewert) was actually a cybercrime hub with principals and staff largely based in Russia.
FTC Chairman, Jonathan Leibowitz affirms, “Anything bad on the Internet, they were involved in it.” Other segments from the FTC’s reports indicated that 3fn.net hosted “vast quantities of illegal, malicious, and harmful content, including child pornography, botnet command and control servers, spyware, viruses, trojans, phishing related sites, illegal online pharmacies, investment and other Web-based scams, and pornography featuring violence, bestiality, and incest.”
