Buy an Infected PC for 5 Cents

Author: Ryan Naraine
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From PC World (Erik Larkin)
It doesn’t take much to get started in Internet crime these days. Find the right site, hand over $50, and you can start wreaking havoc with 1,000 already-infected PCs.
Finjan, a San Jose, CA security company, looked into the “Golden Cash” site, used by black hats to buy and sell the use of hijacked computers. The crooks behind the site infect PCs (or pay others to do so) with the Golden Cash remote-control malware, and then sell access to those PCs. And that access doesn’t cost much.  Read the full story [pcworld.com]

From PC World (Erik Larkin)

It doesn’t take much to get started in Internet crime these days. Find the right site, hand over $50, and you can start wreaking havoc with 1,000 already-infected PCs.

Finjan, a San Jose, CA security company, looked into the “Golden Cash” site, used by black hats to buy and sell the use of hijacked computers. The crooks behind the site infect PCs (or pay others to do so) with the Golden Cash remote-control malware, and then sell access to those PCs. And that access doesn’t cost much.  Read the full story [pcworld.com]

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