How much does it cost to buy 10,000 U.S.-based malware-infected hosts?


By Dancho Danchev

Earlier this month, we profiled and exposed a newly launched underground service offering access to tens of thousands of malware-infected hosts, with an emphasis on the fact that U.S.-based hosts were relatively more expensive to acquire, largely due to the fact that U.S.-based users are known to have a higher online purchasing power. How much does it cost to buy 10,000 U.S.-based malware-infected hosts? Let’s find out.

In this post, I’ll profile yet another service offering access to malware-infected hosts internationally, that’s been operating since the middle of 2012, and despite the fact that it’s official Web site is currently offline, remains in operation until present day.

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New E-shop selling stolen credit cards data spotted in the wild


By Dancho Danchev

What happens once a cybercriminal has managed to obtain access to your credit card data by either compromising an insecure database, or through crimeware dropped on an affected host? Would he purchase blank plastic and holograms and embed the stolen data in an attempt to cash out as much money as possible, or would he look for alternative “risk forwarding” tactics to earn revenue while preserving his security and anonymity in the process?

It depends on the cybercriminal in question. In this post, I’ll profile a recently launched E-shop offering complete access to stolen credit cards data  primarily belonging to U.S citizens.

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