WMF Exploit Sold Underground for $4,000

tero1176 writes "Eweek has a story with information from Kaspersky showing that exploit code used in the WMF malware attack was being peddled on underground sites by rival Russian hacker groups for $4,000 in early December. The first sign of an exploit was traced back to the December 1, 2005, a full month before anti-virus vendors started noticing mysterious WMF files rigged with malicious executable code. It serves as more proof that the market for malware is well and truly alive."

Comments

Re:Russians eh?

[caluml]

In Soviet Russia, you exploit hackers!

Malware Headquarters: +1, Informative

[Anonymous Coward]

is located at Al-Qaeda Headquarters.

The world is much simpler than most people think.

Sincerely,
Kilgore Trout, C.E.O.

OMG WTF H4X~!!

[Anonymous Coward]

I was promised strict confidentiality by the seller!