More than 40 network operators agree to filter routing information, prevent IP address-spoofing, and to work together to thwart Internet traffic abuse and problems.

Cyber-criminals and nation-state hackers routinely hide behind phony IP addresses to mask their location and identity, but an Internet initiative that seeks to thwart that and other malicious and inadvertent traffic on the global Net now has on board some 42 network operators crisscrossing 21 nations.