Virtualine is seized, AS202412 goes dark, and AS0 ROAs keep its old space off the map
On October 27 the U.S. Department of Justice announced the court-authorized seizure of virtualine.net, a bulletproof hosting service it lists under several aliases, including Omegatech. Less than nine hours later, AS202412 (Omegatech LTD) withdrew every prefix we monitor. AS6461 had already begun originating 23 of those /24s in parallel. Nineteen of them now validate as RPKI Invalid under two AS0 ROAs and reach about 3% of RIS peers.
The shared name and the timing are suggestive. The DOJ release names no ASN or prefix, so the link to AS202412 is not confirmed.
- SeizureOperation Omegaline: virtualine.net seized by the FBI, announced Oct 27; aliases include Omegatech
- Origin nowAS202412 announces nothing; 23 former /24s from AS6461, one from AS51130
- RPKI19 /24s Invalid; 15 covered by two AS0 ROAs from different issuing CAs
- Reach2.7–3.6% RIS visibility for the invalid routes vs 85–92% for uncovered ones
The last 48 hours (UTC)
- Estate-wide 13-minute flap: all 24 prefixes withdrawn and back
- AS6461 appears as a second origin on 23 /24s
- DOJ announces the virtualine.net seizure (Operation Omegaline)
- AS0 ROA A signed
- AS202412 withdraws all 24; AS219199's four go in the same poll
- Upstream AS30823 drops AS202412
- AS0 ROA B signed under a different CA
BGP times are poller detection times. Correlation in time is not evidence of cause.