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Verizon Routing Millions of IP Addresses for Cybercrime Gangs

ID: 26919b05-8480-5ce6-a25d-0a6675ad5ef1

STIX ID: report--26919b05-8480-5ce6-a25d-0a6675ad5ef1

Feed Name: The Spamhaus Project

Threat Score
70/100

Date Published: 2016-02-01

Date Updated: 2026-04-30

Author: The Spamhaus Team

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This Spamhaus report documents widespread hijacking of IPv4 address space that was being announced via Verizon's autonomous system to support large-scale 'snowshoe' spam operations. It lists over 4 million affected IPs with specific network prefixes, describes attackers' use of forged authorization and hijacked dormant allocations, details Spamhaus' outreach to Verizon, and notes that Verizon ceased announcing the suspect ranges by 2016-01-23.

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