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Study finds the average price for renting a botnet
05/27/2010
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Dancho Danchev - May 26, 2010, 2:16PM PDT
Based on an experiment conducted by researchers from VeriSign's iDefense Intelligence Operations Team, involving 25 different "rent a botnet/DDoS for hire" underground marketplace propositions, they were able to conclude that the average price for renting a botnet is $67 for 24 hours, and $9 for hourly access.
With only two static things within the underground marketplace that I can think of right now - greed and potential for growth, personally, I think that static price lists for a particular service don't fall within this category.
Here's why.
The dynamics of the underground marketplace, have greatly matured throughout the past couple of years. The logical shift from static pricing lists, to the embracing of multiple pricing schemes such as price discrimination (differentiated pricing), or penetration pricing, naturally resulted in different prices for different targeted groups.
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