By Dancho Danchev
In a series of blog posts shedding more light into the emergence of the boutique cybercrime ‘enterprise’, we’ve been profiling underground market propositions that continue populating the cybercrime ecosystem on a daily basis, but fail to result in any widespread damage or introduce potential ecosystem disrupting features. Despite these observations, the novice cybercriminals behind them continue earning revenue from fellow cybercriminals, continue generating and maintaining their botnets, and, just like small businesses in a legitimate economy model, continue to collectively occupy a significant market share within the cybercrime ecosystem.
In this post, I’ll profile a self-service type of boutique iFrame crypting cybercrime-friendly operation and discuss why its perceived short product/service life cycle is still a profitable cybercrime ecosystem monetization tactic, despite these services’/products’ inability to differentiate their proposition from the market leading competitors whose ‘releases’ remain a major driving force behind the mature state of the underground market in 2013.
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