Botnet (for hire )at just $8.94/hour*

Recently it has been disclosed by VeriSign cyber security intelligence arm that botnet services are available at very cheap rate $8.94 per hour*. This online investigation is carried out on 25 botnet operators. it has been founs that the botnet operators has advertised for renting their services on three different forums. * Terms and conditions applied.

In the reported advertisement, botnet assured number of illegal services or say attack vectors like ICMP, SYN, UDP, HTTP, HTTPS and Data.

While those masterminding criminal operations involving botnets have in the past often been technical experts, the trend is towards the hiring of botnet services by less-skilled individuals, according to VeriSign. This was disclosed when these was arrest of three men operating Mariposa botnet.

The Mariposa botnet, believed to have been composed of 12.7 million PCs that stole credit card and bank log-in data and infected computers in half of the Fortune 1000 companies and more than 40 banks. According to ZDNet.

The world's largest botnet, Zeus botnet, had its traffic disrupted by repeated disconnections of a Kazakhstani ISP in March, but a series of reconnections revived its activity, security researchers have said. The botnet mainly pushes out the Zeus banking Trojan, an information-stealing keylogger that relays sensitive data back to its controllers.

To read more, follow:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-20005844-83.html?tag=mncol;title
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/security-threats/2010/05/25/botnet-price-for-hourly-hire-on-par-with-cost-of-two-pints-40089028/
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/security-threats/2010/03/12/zeus-botnet-shaken-by-isp-cutoffs-40088290/
http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/mariposa-botnet/

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