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This isn't just a "Russian" thing.
So, we take you at face value, with no citations or other authority? What if you're one of the Russian cybercriminals? Or that hacker that the Georgian CERT unmasked? So, +1 for vaguely menacing vagueness.
Edit: Another commenter linked to the original report.
>If you want to buy a botnet, it'll cost you somewhere in the region of $700
Very vague.
>ZeuS source code: $200-$500
Nope, total bullshit. It is widely available. [1]
>SOCKS bot (to get around firewalls): $100
Nope. "Socks bot" refers to the ability to convert an infected computer into a SOCKSv5 proxy
>Unintelligent exploit bundle: $25
This refers to exploit packs, which is obfuscated software sold on these boards that contain unpatched 0day exploits. Exploit packs are worthless after a week, unless updated since all the vulnerabilities (apart from Java[2]). They're available for free.
[1]http://www.multiupload.co.uk/P8QUNF4YJN
[2]http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/30/oracle_knew_about_fl...
I'd be willing to fork up the $150 to see if they could hack into my own gmail account. Seems like cheap penetration testing. Pointing them toward myself should be legal as well. So who do I pay? In fact Google should be paying them to hack honeypotted accounts and see what they try.
Nope all over this article. >If you want to buy a botnet, it'll cost you somewhere in the region of $700 Very vague. >ZeuS source code: $200-$500 Nope, total bullshit. It is widely available. [1] >SOCKS bot (to get around firewalls): $100 Nope. "Socks bot" refers to the ability to convert an infected computer into a SOCKSv5 proxy >Unintelligent exploit bundle: $25 This refers to exploit packs, which is obfuscated sof…
[1]http://www.gov.cn/english/laws/2005-09/22/content_68710.htm
[2]http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/content/download/1958/13719/ve...
[3]http://www.moj.go.jp/ENGLISH/information/loe-01.html
[4]http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_gg/englisch_gg.ht...
[5]http://www.internetworldstats.com/list2.htm
This isn't just a "Russian" thing.
I'd love to learn about examples of particular socio-economic reasons in particular countries for cybercrime being more mature than IT business.
I'd be willing to fork up the $150 to see if they could hack into my own gmail account. Seems like cheap penetration testing. Pointing them toward myself should be legal as well. So who do I pay? In fact Google should be paying them to hack honeypotted accounts and see what they try.
A year ago a "friend" of me hired a russian hacker, just for a joke, and he hacked my gmail, twitter and facebook accounts. And the passwords were random 10 caracters or something like that. He hired the hacker in free-lance.ru
I'd be willing to fork up the $150 to see if they could hack into my own gmail account. Seems like cheap penetration testing. Pointing them toward myself should be legal as well. So who do I pay? In fact Google should be paying them to hack honeypotted accounts and see what they try.
A year ago a "friend" of me hired a russian hacker, just for a joke, and he hacked my gmail, twitter and facebook accounts. And the passwords were random 10 caracters or something like that. He hired the hacker in free-lance.ru
Nope all over this article. >If you want to buy a botnet, it'll cost you somewhere in the region of $700 Very vague. >ZeuS source code: $200-$500 Nope, total bullshit. It is widely available. [1] >SOCKS bot (to get around firewalls): $100 Nope. "Socks bot" refers to the ability to convert an infected computer into a SOCKSv5 proxy >Unintelligent exploit bundle: $25 This refers to exploit packs, which is obfuscated sof…
Also, just as an additional note: it is not just Russia doing this. Countries where extradition is not an option generally tend to have the largest amount of cyber crime. The list includes China[1], Germany[4], Russia, Japan[3] and France[2]. People in these countries generally target Americans, since USA has the second largest amount of internet users (245,203,319) [5] and has one of the highest GDP in the world[6].…
It has always fascinated me how history, individuals, geography and natural resources influenced people, their mentality in various world regions. While Russia is rich for natural resources (diamonds, gas, oil), just a few people profit from them. Next tear of wealthy individuals mostly profit from serving those who profit from natural resources… Natural resources imply that value is already created. You dont have to…
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A year ago a "friend" of me hired a russian hacker, just for a joke, and he hacked my gmail, twitter and facebook accounts. And the passwords were random 10 caracters or something like that. He hired the hacker in free-lance.ru
Any more information to this story? Do you know how they did it?
if you want to hire someone, go to free-lance.ru, in left menu select web-programmin (Веб-программирование)then secyrity (Защита информации) and hire someone. Some of them will do the work, if not, they know someone who can do it.