According to the findings of the security firm Kaspersky Lab, 841 servers in Vietnam among 70 624 Server Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) is being brought for sale on the black market xDedic.
Map name the host nation are being brought for sale on the black market xDedic. - Photo: Kaspersky
The neighboring countries of Vietnam also sell servers are quite large: Singapore (743), Thailand (1148), China (5023) ...
$ 6 / access
Experts at Kaspersky Lab has conducted international investigations xDedic forum and discovered cybercriminals are purchasing access to the compromised server for Ichi 6 USD for each access.
Only 6 USD per server, forum members can xDedic have access to all data of a server and use them as platforms to attack later, may include intentional attacks , malware, DDoS, phishing email, attack by social engineering and adware.
The last victim is not just consumers or organizations being targeted in an attack, but also the owner of the server does not know danger is ongoing.
Costin Raiu, director of analysis and research group Global Kaspersky Lab
Multiple servers including granting access to commercial Web sites, services and software are running multiple settings for sending direct mail, financial accounting and Point-of-Sale (PoS). They can be used to attack systems or as a launch pad for bigger attacks, meanwhile, system owners, including government organizations, corporations and universities who have little or no know anything about what was happening.
173 countries have victim
According to Kaspersky, the market seemed xDedic activities in 2014 and to grow by mid-January 2015. 5-2016, it had a list of 70 624 servers from 173 countries for sale with 416 names different sale. The top 10 countries affected include: Brazil, China, Russia, India, Spain, Italy, France, Australia, South Africa and Malaysia.
xDedic is a typical example for a new type of black market of cybercrime: organized and well supported and given access easily and quickly to organize legal systems at a low cost for any crime including network from introductory level to gangs APT to conceal illegal activity as long as possible.
Costin Raiu, director of analysis and research group Global Kaspersky Lab, said: "xDedic again confirmed problems cybercrime as a service activity is spreading alongside commercial ecosystem and trading platform. Its existence makes everyone, from the attacker to the names chickens blurred national APT is backed, are easily attacked with the possibility of destroying the way inexpensive, fast and efficient .
The last victim is not just consumers or organizations being targeted in an attack, but also the owner of the server does not know danger is happening: they may be completely unaware that the machine his master compromised again and again for different attacks which are all happening so explicitly. "
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