abuse.ch appoints Spamhaus as a licensee to secure its future

FanJ · Aug 9, 2022

abuse.ch appoints Spamhaus as a licensee to secure its future
Published on 8th August 2022
https://abuse.ch/blog/abuse-ch-appoints-spamhaus-as-a-licensee/

On Monday, August 1st, 2022, Spamhaus Technology became the primary licensee of data produced by abuse.ch. Here's an outline of why this partnership was conceived and what it hopes to achieve in the future.
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In 2008, a sole researcher founded abuse.ch – a project committed to fighting abuse on the internet
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abuse.ch's popularity has grown significantly over time. Not only with the internet community who kindly share their intelligence data via abuse.ch’s various tools but also those who consume it. The initial platform launched was ZeuS Tracker, with ThreatFox and YARAify added more recently.
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But one person can only do so much.
In the founder's words, "Maintaining a project in one's spare time that has expanded to such a degree has become untenable." They explained, "it has been necessary to appoint a licensee, not only to safeguard the project's current achievements but also build upon them and realize its full potential."
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Read there more!

They did a super job all those years!

https://abuse.ch/

FIGHTING MALWARE AND BOTNETS
abuse.ch is providing community driven threat intelligence on cyber threats. It is the home of a couple of projects that are helping internet service providers and network operators protecting their infrastructure from malware. IT-Security researchers, vendors and law enforcement agencies rely on data from abuse.ch, trying to make the internet a safer place.
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Edited to add: I wasn't sure in which forum-section to post this

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