Autonomous system
AS13018 Banca Monte Dei Paschi Di Siena
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena
finance enterprise business
Two blocks, one netname, and two different levels of disclosure about who holds them.
What it's used for
- The network of an Italian bank. 2,048 addresses across two IPv4 prefixes, two observed BGP neighbours, and no IPv6 announced.
Notable
- Both
81.26.192.0/22and195.7.16.0/22carry the netnameMPS-NET. - On one the registrant names the bank; on the other it resolves only to an abuse-handling role.
- Six addresses were sampled and none answered.
Interesting
- The same operator has published two different amounts about itself on two halves of one network. Registry records are edited block by block, so a policy change or a privacy request applied to one entry leaves the other as it was, and the pair records the change rather than replacing it. Anyone building an inventory from registrant names would find half this network and miss the rest.
- Nothing answers a reverse lookup, which for a bank is a position rather than an oversight. Reverse names are free reconnaissance: they label which addresses are gateways, mail servers or branch links, and an institution with no public services to advertise gains nothing by publishing them.
- Two neighbours and 2,048 addresses is an enterprise holding an AS number for independence from any one carrier. The AS number lets the bank change providers without renumbering, which matters more when every change has to be justified to an auditor.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-19, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 2 prefixes · 2.05K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| IT | Italy | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS13018- Registry name
- UNSPECIFIED
- Registrant
- COGMPS
- Abuse contact
- sistemi@mps.it
- Registered
- 2001-11-27
- Last changed
- 2017-11-15
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 6 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS13018
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 83% registered · 5 of 6 announcements 1 other origin
- Route objects
- 5 naming AS13018
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
No DROP prefixes None of its announced space is on the DROP prefix list.
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 442 networks and 1,783 prefixes, as published 2026-10-20. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.
FBI IC3
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere