It doesn't happen every day that you see a /13 IPv4 network end up on Spamhaus Blocklist (SBL). Such large prefixes are commonly listed in conjunction with IP hijacking activity - and yes, you guessed it, the last /13 entering SBL (and DROP) is a hijacked unallocated prefix, according to our investigations🕵️

102.224.0.0/13, "reserved [by AFRINIC] for future as per section 5.4.7.1 of [AFRINIC's] consolidated policy manual Version 1.1", according to its AFRINIC database record, was suddenly announced by AS3563. Its owner, 🇺🇸Pilot Network Services, Inc, seems to have abandoned it; pilot[.]net is parked nowadays.

Shortly after 102.224.0.0/13 entered SBL and DROP, the BGP announcement by AS3563 disappeared. It remains unclear whether the miscreants themselves or their uplink,🇧🇷ELETRONET S.A. (AS267613), pulled the plug. 🧐

IP hijacking remains a persistent threat. If you are a network operator, please ensure your IP assets and ASNs can't get hijacked, and your infrastructure does not process traffic to or from hijacked networks 👉 https://www.spamhaus.org/resource-hub/hijacking/

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I've spent my whole career working with neurodivergent people in tech.

Here's to the people who thrive with interrupts, who work best when juggling four different things, are pretty great incident responders, and can code while talking on slack.

Here's to the people who need four uninterupted hours to get anything done, but what they get done is fantastic, and they have the in depth knowledge to explain nuances you didn't even know were there, making them the folk who find the long term remediations after incidents.

Here's to the people who take great joy in picking the lint out of a codebase because it's fun, who refactor for the challenge, who see bad process and ache to get changes in to reduce the friction.

Here's to the people who seem to know everyone, who reach across teams to tap experts who don't get the recognition others do, and work best when working WITH.

Y'all are amazing