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Comment Not Necessarily Owned By That Institution (Score 1) 54

by 65Galaxie (#39015043) Attached to: Tools, Techniques, Procedures of the RSA Hackers Revealed

If you look at the whois record (http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-75-100-117-112-1/pft), you'll see that it is indeed listed as owned by a financial institution -- at least, in theory. As they pointed out in the article, the attackers registered DNS names using look-alike credentials, so why not do the same with IP blocks? If you look closer at the above whois, you'll notice that ARIN has been unable to contact the Point of Contact who registered the IPs since 2 weeks after they were registered and the email address is not owned by said financial institution.

Thus, I would conclude that there is a high likelihood the IP registration was spoofed like they did with DNS entries.
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