Office 2010 Standard Buy an Infected PC for 5 cent

By Erik Larkin, Laptop Planet
June 17, 2009 02:forty PM ET
It does not take significantly to get started out in Net crime as of late. Uncover the correct internet site, hand over $50,Microsoft Office Standard, and you can start off wreaking havoc with one,000 already-infected PCs.

Finjan, a San Jose, CA security firm, looked into your "Golden Cash" site, utilized by black hats to get and promote using hijacked computer systems. The crooks behind the internet site infect PCs (or shell out other individuals to accomplish so) together with the Golden Cash remote-control malware, and then promote access to people PCs. And that access isn't going to expense a lot.

According to the price list in Finjan's report, a batch of one,000 infected PCs in Australia costs $100 - a whopping ten cents each and every. A batch inside the US runs $50, and bargain-basement bad guys can build a far-east malware network for as small as $5 per 1,000. Crooks can then install other malware, deliver spam,Office 2010, embed rogue antivirus,Windows 7 Ultimate Product Key, or utilize the victim PCs in any quantity of profit-making scams.

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