College for cyber criminals: Dark web crooks are teaching courses on how to build botnets

[DDE_Server]

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https://www.zdnet.com/article/college-for-cyber-criminals-dark-web-crooks-are-teaching-courses-on-how-to-build-botnets/

Cybersecurity researchers at Recorded Future analysed advertising and activity in a botnet school on a prominent underground forum and found that these courses are in demand – something that could be a potential issue for organisations that might be targeted by cyber criminals learning these skills.

"It's essentially like as if you're in college," Danny Panton, cybercrime intelligence analyst at Recorded Future told ZDNet. "You'll have a director and they'll be virtually teaching you – I don't believe cameras are going to be on the person – but they have access to a platform and are taught insights into what you need to do to leverage botnets against potential victims."

Those teaching the courses include individuals who run large botnets themselves. The courses aren't cheap – they cost over $1,400 dollars – but promise to provide even novice cyber criminals with knowledge on how to build, maintain and monetise botnets.

"It really is a range of cybercrime experience and levels. You might have people who are seasoned cybercrime fraudsters, but aren't really familiar with using botnets," Panton explained. "Then there are people who are just completely new to cybercrime as a whole and just are curious and want to become better seasoned and increase their skills," he added.

Given the nature of the cybercrime world, some might be suspicious that if they hand over money to take part in the course, they'll be scammed and get nothing in return. But it seems like legitimate a service and the course is subject to reviews, which suggest that the botnet school really offers what it says it does. If it was a scam, it wouldn't have lasted so long.

 

[cruelsister]

About time! There are far too many wanna-be Blackhats that really are clueless in crafting actually functional malware, and all these poorly coded files that do nothing at all still will show up on daily malware lists in spite of having only code segments that are questionable. Far too much time is then expended by malware analysts as one must now constantly separate the wheat from the chaff.

Also, when viewing Security videos that will test a product against a few hundred "new" malware samples, it would be wise to question the true maliciousness of those malware files used in the test, and any conclusions must also be questioned as an anti-malware application showing strong results when run primarily against such crap is without value (garbage in, garbage out).

 

[Deletedmessiah]

Where can we pirate these courses?

 

[DDE_Server]

Where can we pirate these courses?

i need mentor to guide me from zero to hero

 

[Kubla]

With the ever increasing data collection, privacy invasion, and surveillance being perpetuated by Big Tech and Big Brother often hand in hand they should be doing courses on online anonymity instead.

 

[Freud2004]

i need mentor to guide me from zero to hero

Do you need the contact of some Indian or Iranian hackers ? lol

Spoiler

 

[Vitali Ortzi]

Where can we pirate these courses?

I can mention places in DM but first of all they are risky as hell
And you've can get better knowledge from other places anyway
BTW don't be a #####ing retard and spread malware like them
It's as illegal and umoral as raping someone's kid

 

[Deletedmessiah]

I can mention places in DM but first of all they are risky as hell
And you've can get better knowledge from other places anyway
BTW don't be a ing retard and spread malware like them
It's as illegal and umoral as raping someone's kid

It was a joke...