Jun 13 2005
The cost of spreading malware
Here’s another article on the cost of a botnet. This ‘business’ is paying $61 per 1000 infected systems to hackers. They, in turn, use the infected systems to create hits on ad servers as if they were referalls from the host network. This nets the Russian company a few pennies per hit, and multiplying the money they spent by a ‘guesstimate’ of 6. I wonder how they came to that number?
Luckily, the fix is pretty easy: block 81.222.131.59. Of course, this only takes care of this company. What happens when this becomes a common practice in the malware community?
One Response to “The cost of spreading malware”
that’s a very intriguing story…!!
thanks Martin !
from a security beginner.