Criminals Operating Malware Supermarkets

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Interesting article. I suppose that it was inevitable, really.

 

I wonder how you pay for a trojan or a list of future victims?
Is payment done by creditcard and are they just using some stolen cards/numbers or is there honour amongh thieves?

 

You can simply pay by a credit card, all you have to is to make sure, that you do not have an infected PC.

Well, creating a malware, "for testing purposes", is not a crime, but putting it to a use is a criminal act, including its selling.
Like 25-year old Li Jun, who has written Fujacks worm, and sold it for $12,500 was now sentenced to four years in prison - article.

 

Very interesting.

I had a difficult time getting over the fact that you use to buy "Trojans" for an entirely different reason. Now Trojans in modern time has two meanings.

My how times have changed.

 

Now everybody can get malware and use it to pest other people, if they are angry with them. Not a good development.