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Mobile botnets: an economic and technological assessment
06/24/2010
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June 11, 2010
Based on an experiment conducted by researchers from VeriSigns 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.
Basically, the propositions analyzed by iDefense, can be best described as variables that are tailored to different customers.
For instance, starting from the basic fact that cybercriminals actively multitask on multiple fronts, and the fact that access to botnets as an asset is a commodity good within the underground marketplace these days, certain propositions will even offer the "botnet for hire" option as a bonus/value-added service.
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