Day Trading For Hackers

Posted by Maxim Weinstein Thu, 08 May 2008 17:39:00 GMT

Brian Krebs at the Washington Post has this nifty piece about a website that appears to be set up to allow malicious hackers to buy and sell traffic to/from particular websites. As the post explains:

Set up a free account at Robotraff and you’re ready to buy or sell Web traffic. Got 30,000 hacked personal computers under your thumb? Super! Now you can use those systems to generate a steady income just by pointing them at Web sites requested by a buyer.

Or maybe you’re just getting started and you can’t be bothered to build your own army of hacked PCs the old-fashioned way? No problem! Now you can set up a Web site that tries to exploit Web browser or browser plug-in vulnerabilities and simply buy all the traffic you need.

This is why the “good guys” need to work together to innovate and share information to protect users. Because the bad guys are already taking advantage of everything the ‘net has to offer.