International non - profit organisation , The ##haus Project , has alleged that US telecommunications company , Verizon , has aided cybercriminals by failing to properly check the identities of individuals wanting to set up IP addresses through its servers . The company maintains a real - time list of the internet ’s worst spammers and works with both internet service providers and the security forces to identify and stop these individuals and groups . The organisation has said that there are currently more than four million stolen IP addresses that are being routed through Verizon ’s network . Once authenticated as an autonomous system, the cybercriminal then receives an autonomous system number and the routes to their stolen IP addresses are announced. It argues that the problem emanates from Verizon ’s failure to properly check the autonomous registration system for IP addresses . It is difficult for cybercriminals to obtain new IP addresses legally , so they look for hundreds of addresses that are dormant . They either steal these for their own use ( from them they can send spam email for example ) or sell them to other cybercriminals . Once the individual has the correct address , they have to sign up as an autonomous system with a service provider . They will use forged documents , and it is this flaw in the process that The Spamhaus Project argues needs to be better policed .
International non - profit organisation , The ##haus Project , has alleged that US telecommunications company , Verizon , has aided cybercriminals by failing to properly check the identities of individuals wanting to set up IP addresses through its servers . The company maintains a real - time list of the internet ’s worst spammers and works with both internet service providers and the security forces to identify and stop these individuals and groups . The organisation has said that there are currently more than four million stolen IP addresses that are being routed through Verizon ’s network . It argues that the problem emanates from Verizon ’s failure to properly check the autonomous registration system for IP addresses . It is difficult for cybercriminals to obtain new IP addresses legally , so they look for hundreds of addresses that are dormant . They either steal these for their own use ( from them they can send spam email for example ) or sell them to other cybercriminals . Once the individual has the correct address , they have to sign up as an autonomous system with a service provider . They will use forged documents , and it is this flaw in the process that The Spamhaus Project argues needs to be better policed .