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| Botmaster: It's All About Infecting, Selling Big Batches of Bots Written by Daniel Friday, 21 August 2009 Undercover Cisco researcher told the going rate for a single bot is 10- to 25 cents Aug 20, 2009 | 04:13 PM By Kelly Jackson Higgins DarkReading Researchers at Cisco recently got a rare glimpse of the inner workings of the botnet underworld after going undercover and meeting an actual botmaster online: the botmaster, who ran a botnet that had infected dozens of machines at a Cisco customer site, said his main job is to compromise a few thousand machines and then sell them off in bulk. [Front page...]
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