A botnet is for sale on the dark web with a capacity of 1.3 million bots for successful attacks. The dark web seller who joined the hacker forum on June 7, 2023 said it was his botnet. The dark web botnet’s sales message stated that the bots were “located in Asia/Europe.”
The vendor offered access to the botnet of 1.3 million bots in two parts – Loader and Panel for thieves. “Last entry price: $1,000 / 2 places,” reads the message regarding the Dark Web sale of botnets.
1.3 million bots on Dark Web botnet sale
The seller noted that the botnets for sale were regularly online. They posted a screenshot of the panel to use to access the botnet’s features of 1.3 million bots.
Threat intelligence platform Falcon Feeds posted the screenshot of the ad above to Twitter/X.
The screenshot shows that other versions of the botnets were sold for 52,000 and 53,000 respectively. The first was paid by those who wanted to launch cyberattacks using the 1.3 bots for a lifetime subscription.
The latter was paid by cybercriminals to buy it for a sum lifetime subscription with updated robots. Detailing what the updated robots meant, the ad said: “…the term updated robots refers to the fact that if 1.3 million robots are lost, you won’t get new ones…”
He further added that the seller updates the latest robots based on the existing selection that can be used by the buyer. “…you have every right to resell robots, to use them for purposes other than Ransomware or killbots,” indicating that these can deploy ransomware.
Additionally, after launching a botnet attack on a server, they can share the malware with others to target the infrastructure as they wish.
Botnets are widely used to launch Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks that send a high number of requests to a website or network that it cannot accommodate. This can crash the system, leaving services inaccessible to users.
Access to 1.3 million bots, as announced in the post selling dark web botnets for a thousand dollars, is worrying news for organizations. Several hacktivist groups launch DDoS attacks on websites to avenge government action against a specific minority.
The above screenshot of the dark web sale of 1.3 million botnets had the United States flag circled, leaving the others. The highlighted parts on the map included almost all of India, which likely hints at the presence of botnets in the region.
Token drainer sold on the Dark Web
Dark web malware sales and announcements black hat hacking competition have increased considerably in recent times. Among the others was Cerbère drainerwhich was sold on the dark web with the ability to drain tokens and NFTs.
The advertisement for the Cerberus Drainer indicated that it was a second version of the tool. This cryptocurrency drainer was supposed to check the hacked user’s wallet and possibly make transfers. It has been improved over the previous version with increased detection evasion capabilities.
Cerberus Drainer was promised to impact over 30 networks with flexible drain settings on the panel, suggesting the increased effort and skill put into it. cybercriminality.
On the bright side, the dark web marketplace called Piilopuoti was taken down thanks to the collaborative effort of Finnish Customs (Tulli) and European partners. This dark web marketplace has been used to sell drugs and illegal products since May 2022.
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