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Access To Thousands Of Compromised Government Servers Selling For $6 On Black Market
An anonymous reader writes: Researchers have uncovered an underground market selling information of over 70,000 compromised servers. Russia-based Kaspersky Lab revealed that the online forum, named xDedic, seems to be operated by a Russian-speaking organisation and allows hackers to pay for undetectable access to a wide range of servers, including those owned by government, corporate and academic groups in more than 170 countries. Access to a compromised server can be bought for as little as $6. This kit comes with relevant tools to instruct on launching denial-of-service attacks and spam campaigns on the targeted network, as well as allowing criminals to illegally produce bitcoin and breach online systems, such as retail payment platforms.
So much for useful reporting. Par for the course, for Eugene 'internet passport' Kaspersky built his empire on FUD and scare words.
Last time I checked, which was months ago, it was nearly impossible to mine Bitcoins without specialized hardware. Are they hacking ASICs or what?
Webroot blocks TFA, saying that the page is hosting malicious content.
Why not link to the Kaspersky research at all? https://securelist.com/blog/re...
This news forum is starting to sound like an advertisement for hacked services. Get it together, entire IT industry.
How soon until the Darknet has its Internet Bubble moment?
When a bad apple rents 5000 AWS VMs and "dresses" them all up to look like Banks, Gov and Prime Military or Industrial targets complete with millions of fake, non-existant citizens with Ultra easy to guess passwords?
Then by "using" or attempting to login they are "fingered" or identified, de-Torred or Exposed.. leaking their own machine access and credentials in the process.
Spearfishing can work [both] ways.. just say'n Darknet.. your days are numbered.. what's good for the Goose.. is Sauce for the Bear.
sounds like not everybody in the government can be trusted with your data after all.
TFA says "over 70,000 compromised servers" and doesn't give a figure for how many of those are government, so it's entirely possibly that saying "Thousands Of Compromised Government Servers" is factually inaccurate.
TFA says "With an upgrade to $7 cybercriminals can gain access to government-based servers". So no, you can't access Govt. servers for $6.
Each. You can't buy access to these servers for $6, you buy access for $6+ for each server. Reading that headline my first thought was "why would someone sell so much for so little?".
Whenever I see commenters moaning about how scientists are always changing their minds on what causes cancer etc. a few people are always quick to point out that it's not the scientists who are the problem, it's the crappy churnalists who misrepresent that information. In this case it's not even The Stacks fault, whoever wrote the headline squeezed three misrepresented/ambiguous items into the headline: that there are 70,000 Govt. servers which you can buy access to for $6. Can we please be a bit more careful and accurate about how we portray these things?
/rant
This kit comes with relevant tools to instruct on launching denial-of-service attacks and spam campaigns on the targeted network
Advise to would be hacker(s): If you need this provided for you don't even try it. You WILL be caught in short order and I HATE jury duty.
you can buy electricity in a bulk rate from the power company, and then make mining bitcoins very profitable.
please come back when you actually know something about this topic, thanks.