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Who are abuse.ch? Are they well-known? I assume the hosts file could be useful to add to pihole?
by tkzed49 2y ago
Who are abuse.ch? Are they well-known? I assume the hosts file could be useful to add to pihole?
- bauruine 2y agoThey seem to be partners of spamhaus. From the recent feed [0] it looks like it's often just IP addresses so you would need to add it to your firewall. [0]: https://urlhaus-api.abuse.ch/v1/urls/recent/ https://urlhaus-api.abuse.ch/v1/urls/recent/
- cess11 2y agoYes, they are fairly well-known. They have been partnering with Spamhaus: https://abuse.ch/blog/abuse-ch-appoints-spamhaus-as-a-licensee/ https://abuse.ch/blog/abuse-ch-appoints-spamhaus-as-a-licens...
- supriyo-biswas 2y agoSometimes popular domains like drive.google.com get added, and at other times some domains are just that popular to reach a TRANCO rank of 20,000, so I generally advice against blocking using sources like URLhaus.
- sambazi 2y agoi generally advise against embedding any blocklists into infrastructure; content policy should be done on clients within reach of the user
- underlines 2y agoabuse.ch is a non-profit, initially private. Working on cyber security issues for 15 years. Mainly focused on botnets and malware. Since 2021, abuse.ch is under the Institute for Cybersecurity and Engineering ICE at Bern University of Applied Sciences. To date the project has been funded entirely from private-sector donations. They have mainly two goals: 1 Research: Research into malware and botnets 2 Open source threat intelligence: indicator of compromise – IOC for the public to prevent threats