If there was a July Olympic event for comment spammers, hackers and generally unwanted network traffic, Ukraine would certainly be vying for a gold medal. While monitoring web traffic from thousands of IP addresses located in The Ukraine, we noticed a familiar pattern: 99.99% of the traffic was malicious, detrimental or otherwise undesirable.
Ukrainian network traffic receives our most strenuous thumbs down for the month of July. If you are not doing business with any entity located within The Ukraine, you may consider blocking all network traffic from that country. For your convenience we have some quick links to Ukrainian black lists in the following formats:
Netmask
.htaccess Deny
IP Range
Cisco ACL
PG2
Country IP Blocks is testing a new network proxies by country feature. If the test is successful we will add the proxy data to our Access Control Lists. If you are looking to block network proxies by country please give us some feedback and let us know. If we add this feature to our daily updates the data will be refreshed daily.
We are currently working on scripts to test for proxies in all networks around the world. Our process is to scan IP addresses for various open ports used in open proxies. When we discover an open proxy we store the IP and open port(s) in our database. We will use this data to produce proxy blacklists for those wishing to avoid proxy traffic on their networks or websites.
Please send your feedback to connecting@countryipblocks.net.
The current number one Global Comment Spamming block is currently awarded to Germany. Several IP addresses within the 109.230.192.0/18 CIDR block have allegedly accounted for tens of thousands of comment spam postings within the past several weeks.