Devs on Dark Web Forums Paid Up to $20,000 For Illicit Activities

guest · Jan 31, 2023

By Alessandro Mascellino @a_mascellino - January 30, 2023

Data from 155 dark web forums from January 2020 to June 2022 has shown that threat actors consistently organized to conduct malicious campaigns, buy and sell code, and share job ads.
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The findings from security experts at Kaspersky also suggest the most significant number of ads was posted in March 2020, possibly in connection with the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“A substantial number of people are willing to engage in illicit or semi-legal activities despite the accompanying risks. In particular, many turn to the shadow market for extra income in a crisis,” reads an advisory published by Kaspersky earlier today.
Regarding job types, 61% of the total was for developers, followed by attack specialists (16%) and designers (10%).

“Developers also topped the list of the best-paid dark web IT jobs,” Kaspersky wrote. “The highest advertised monthly salary figure we saw in an ad for a developer was $20,000.”
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As for other salaries, the average levels of pay offered to IT professionals ranged between $1300 and $4000, with the highest median salary of $4000 in ads for reverse engineers.

“Offers like that come from hacker groups, among others,” reads the technical write-up. “Cybercrooks need a staff of professionals with specific skills to penetrate the infrastructure of an organization, steal confidential data, or encrypt the system for subsequent extortion.”
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Kaspersky: Come to the dark side: hunting IT professionals on the dark web

January 30, 2023
The dark web is a collective name for a variety of websites and marketplaces that bring together individuals willing to engage in illicit or shady activities. Dark web forums contain ads for selling and buying stolen data, offers to code malware and hack websites, posts seeking like-minded individuals to participate in attacks on companies, and many more.

This post covers the peculiarities of this kind of employment, terms, candidate selection criteria, and compensation levels. Further information, along with an analysis of the most popular IT jobs on the dark web, can be found in the full version of the report.
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