This is the company’s third report, and shows how prices have risen or fallen since 2013. “Compared to the report last year, our security experts noted this time around that many hackers were expanding their working hours to include weekends and even promising to be available 24 hours a day.” There also continues to be a focus on salesmanship,” Dell reports.
“Prices and goods are not the only way sellers are distinguishing themselves. Airline and hotel points are up for sale as well, with 200,000 points for a U.S.-based airline costing a mere $60 and 1,000,000 points toward international hotel chains costing $200. There are also accounts with $4,000, $7,000, and $15,000, too costing customers up to $500. In the U.S., a bank account with $1,000 costs $40 while an account with $2,000 costs $80. Doxing costs $20.įinally, getting bank account credentials with money already plugged in seems rather cheap as well. DDoS attacks are charged by the hour, by the day, or by the week ranging from $5 to $555.
Hacking tutorials range from $20 to $40 for multiple tutorials, and instructions on how to steal data from a website costs $350.
A Remote Access Trojan (RAT) ranges from $5 to $10 a piece, Crypters cost from $80 to $440, and an Angler Exploit Kit costs between $100 to $135. Of course, hackers are also offering tools and services for a price.
Matias Durante, Vice President, Design at Google, speaks on stage during the Google I/O Developers Conference at Moscone Center on Jin San Francisco. Need an entirely new identity? There’s a package that includes a scan of a social security card, a scan of a driver’s license, and a matching utility bill for $90. A physical counterfeit social security card will run you another $140 to $250.
For $173, you can get a physical counterfeit driver’s license in the U.S., U.K., Germany, and Israel. If you’re looking for some fake identification, hackers can provide that, too. That price jumps up to $194 when hackers are tasked to break into popular social websites established in Russia, such as VK.ru and Ok.ru. To break into a social account like Facebook and Twitter based in the United States, customers must fork over $129. Naturally, social websites are also on the price sheet. IP address of a computer user will cost you an extra $90. Popular Russian email accounts will cost between $65 and $103 while breaking into popular Ukrainian email accounts will cost $129. They’ll also go after corporate email accounts, charging $500 per mailbox. The report reveals that hackers currently charge $129 to hack into popular U.S.-based email accounts such as Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo. “But we believe that being open about these security issues helps users better protect their information online.The report focuses on markets in the Russian underground as well as English-based markets, and covers the third quarter of 2015 to the first quarter of 2016 time frame. “It’s important to stress that our internal systems have not been affected-these account hijackings were not the result of a security problem with Gmail itself,” Google said in the blog. That tactic allows hackers to obtain user names and passwords by asking for the information under the guise of providing security for online accounts. Google said in its post that its affected Gmail users were victims of a “phishing” scheme. It didn’t immediately appear that the incidents were connected. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) this week said he was a “victim of a prank,” referring to what he has called a hacker’s access to his Twitter account and a tweet to a woman in Seattle with a picture of a groin.
The episode comes amid a flurry of cyber attacks in recent weeks, including one hacker’s access to Sony’s online video game accounts. Other world leaders affected include government officials from South Korea, Google said.Ī spokesman declined to comment on who the victims were and how long the hacker had access to their Gmail accounts. It has also notified relevant government authorities, the company said. In a blog post, Google said it has notified victims of the attack. Google’s email service enables users to forward messages automatically and grant others access to their accounts. The company said it recently detected the security breach and stopped what it described as “a campaign to take users’ passwords and monitor their emails, with the perpetrators apparently using stolen passwords to change peoples’ forwarding and delegating settings.” government officials, military personnel, Chinese political activists and journalists. Google said Wednesday a hacker in China obtained access to hundreds of Gmail accounts, including those of senior U.S.