Autonomous system
AS9493 SHS-AS-KR - HMC SECURITIES CO., LTD.
Unclassified APNIC
Summary
Hyundai Motor Securities (registered as HMC Securities)
enterprise legacy
AS9493 (SHS-AS) is registered to HMC SECURITIES CO., LTD. — the Korean brokerage that trades today as Hyundai Motor Securities, an affiliate of the Hyundai Motor Group. The registry record is a snapshot of an older name: the firm was HMC Investment Securities until it renamed to Hyundai Motor Securities in 2018. The SHS in the handle is older still, matching the brokerage's original identity as Shinheung Securities before Hyundai acquired it in 2008.
What it's used for
This is a brokerage's own network. The AS originates 2 IPv4 prefixes totalling 512 addresses — 203.227.19.0/24 and 218.237.111.0/24, one from legacy Korean space and one from later-issued space — and no IPv6.
Three observed BGP neighbours against 512 addresses is the classic multihomed-enterprise shape, and for a securities firm it is close to mandatory. Trading, order routing and customer-facing platforms cannot tolerate a single upstream failure, so the firm runs its own ASN and takes several transit paths purely to keep a fixed, provider-independent set of addresses reachable. Nothing in the routing suggests hosting, transit or any third-party service: two /24s, no aggregate to sub-delegate, no downstream ASes.
Notable
- The AS is a good example of registry lag: the handle records a company name from before 2008, the holder record one from before 2018, and neither matches the brand the business uses now. Read the routing and the corporate record together, not the handle.
- Financial-sector ASNs like this one are consistently small in address terms and disproportionately multihomed — availability, not capacity, is what the ASN buys them.
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 2026-11-02, 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 · 512 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| KR | Korea, Republic of | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS9493- Registry name
- SHS-AS-KR
- Abuse contact
- hostmaster@nic.or.kr
- Registered
- 1999-02-22
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 2 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS9493
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 2 of 2 announcements
- Route objects
- 3 naming AS9493
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: 448 networks and 1,851 prefixes, as published 2026-11-03. 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