Security provider Finjan has released analysing a botnet trading platform. The "Golden Cash" platform allows criminals to buy and sell botnets with prices varying between $5 and $100 per 1000 computers. The platform also allows criminal to place "orders" for botnets of particular sizes and wait for offers.
Golden Cash also provides an exploit tool kit for infecting PCs and manipulating websites. Finjan's report suggests that this platform represents a highly lucrative system. See Finjan's report here for more details.
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Thursday, June 18, 2009
Saturday, March 14, 2009
BotNets – a very real threat
The BBC has been able to acquire software and gain control of over 22,000 computers. In their test they ordered the computers under their control to send spam messages to two mailboxes – within hours the mailboxes began to fill up with junk mail. They also managed to launch a DDOS (distributed denial of service) attack. See the full story at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/7932816.stm
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