The Russian Underground

Came across this article from Trend Micro quantifying some of the services being offered by the Russian crimeware market.  Really helps put into perspective that it only takes a few dollars for a sophisticated package/service which could cost damages of millions of dollars.

Current prices on the Russian underground market:

    Hacking corporate mailbox: $500
    Winlocker ransomware: $10-20
    Unintelligent exploit bundle: $25
    Intelligent exploit bundle: $10-$3,000
    Basic crypter (for inserting rogue code into a benign file): $10-$30
    SOCKS bot (to get around firewalls): $100
    Hiring a DDoS attack: $30-$70/day, $1,200/month
    Botnet: $200 for 2,000 bots
    DDoS botnet: $700
    ZeuS source code: $200-$500
    Windows rootkit (for installing malicious drivers): $292
    Hacking Facebook or Twitter account: $130
    Hacking Gmail account: $162
    Email spam: $10 per one million emails
    Email spam (using a customer database): $50-$500 per one million emails
    SMS spam: $3-$150 per 100-100,000 messages

Current prices on the Russian underground market:

• Hacking corporate mailbox: $500
• Winlocker ransomware: $10-20
• Unintelligent exploit bundle: $25
• Intelligent exploit bundle: $10-$3,000
• Basic crypter (for inserting rogue code into a benign file): $10-$30
• SOCKS bot (to get around firewalls): $100
• Hiring a DDoS attack: $30-$70/day, $1,200/month
• Botnet: $200 for 2,000 bots
• DDoS botnet: $700
• ZeuS source code: $200-$500
• Windows rootkit (for installing malicious drivers): $292
• Hacking Facebook or Twitter account: $130
• Hacking Gmail account: $162
• Email spam: $10 per one million emails
• Email spam (using a customer database): $50-$500 per one million emails
• SMS spam: $3-$150 per 100-100,000 messages

- See more at: http://thehackernews.com/2012/11/russian-underground-cybercrime-market.html#sthash.0wpCGlVs.dpuf

Current prices on the Russian underground market:

• Hacking corporate mailbox: $500
• Winlocker ransomware: $10-20
• Unintelligent exploit bundle: $25
• Intelligent exploit bundle: $10-$3,000
• Basic crypter (for inserting rogue code into a benign file): $10-$30
• SOCKS bot (to get around firewalls): $100
• Hiring a DDoS attack: $30-$70/day, $1,200/month
• Botnet: $200 for 2,000 bots
• DDoS botnet: $700
• ZeuS source code: $200-$500
• Windows rootkit (for installing malicious drivers): $292
• Hacking Facebook or Twitter account: $130
• Hacking Gmail account: $162
• Email spam: $10 per one million emails
• Email spam (using a customer database): $50-$500 per one million emails
• SMS spam: $3-$150 per 100-100,000 messages

- See more at: http://thehackernews.com/2012/11/russian-underground-cybercrime-market.html#sthash.0wpCGlVs.dpuf

Current prices on the Russian underground market:

• Hacking corporate mailbox: $500
• Winlocker ransomware: $10-20
• Unintelligent exploit bundle: $25
• Intelligent exploit bundle: $10-$3,000
• Basic crypter (for inserting rogue code into a benign file): $10-$30
• SOCKS bot (to get around firewalls): $100
• Hiring a DDoS attack: $30-$70/day, $1,200/month
• Botnet: $200 for 2,000 bots
• DDoS botnet: $700
• ZeuS source code: $200-$500
• Windows rootkit (for installing malicious drivers): $292
• Hacking Facebook or Twitter account: $130
• Hacking Gmail account: $162
• Email spam: $10 per one million emails
• Email spam (using a customer database): $50-$500 per one million emails
• SMS spam: $3-$150 per 100-100,000 messages

- See more at: http://thehackernews.com/2012/11/russian-underground-cybercrime-market.html#sthash.0wpCGlVs.dpuf

Current prices on the Russian underground market:

• Hacking corporate mailbox: $500
• Winlocker ransomware: $10-20
• Unintelligent exploit bundle: $25
• Intelligent exploit bundle: $10-$3,000
• Basic crypter (for inserting rogue code into a benign file): $10-$30
• SOCKS bot (to get around firewalls): $100
• Hiring a DDoS attack: $30-$70/day, $1,200/month
• Botnet: $200 for 2,000 bots
• DDoS botnet: $700
• ZeuS source code: $200-$500
• Windows rootkit (for installing malicious drivers): $292
• Hacking Facebook or Twitter account: $130
• Hacking Gmail account: $162
• Email spam: $10 per one million emails
• Email spam (using a customer database): $50-$500 per one million emails
• SMS spam: $3-$150 per 100-100,000 messages

- See more at: http://thehackernews.com/2012/11/russian-underground-cybercrime-market.html#sthash.0wpCGlVs.dpuf