http://blogs.stopbadware.org/articles/2008/05/08/day-trading-for-hackers en-us 40 Regaining Control of Our Computers <p>Brian Krebs at the <i>Washington Post</i> has <a href="http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/05/the_click_fraud_stock_exchange_1.html">this nifty piece</a> 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:</p> <blockquote> <p>Set up a free account at Robotraff and you&#8217;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.</p> </blockquote> <blockquote> <p>Or maybe you&#8217;re just getting started and you can&#8217;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.</p> </blockquote> <p>This is why the &#8220;good guys&#8221; need to work together to innovate and share information to protect users. Because the bad guys are already taking advantage of everything the &#8216;net has to offer.</p> Thu, 08 May 2008 13:39:00 -0400 urn:uuid:9e93e0a5-dd0b-40d2-bee6-106e144fb6c9 Maxim Weinstein http://blogs.stopbadware.org/articles/2008/05/08/day-trading-for-hackers all stopbadware malware