Interesting article on Wired today including a list of prices for hiring a Russian hacker:
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Hacking corporate mailbox: $500
- Winlocker ransomware: $10-20
- Unintelligent exploit bundle: $25
- Intelligent exploit bundle: $10-$3,000
Via: Wired