A Hacker’s Holiday Shopping List
Malicious hackers and other assorted bad guys looking for new tools for plying their trade this upcoming holiday season will have plenty of toys and services to choose from. Servicing them is a growing underground market bristling with botnets, Trojans, rootkits, spyware and all sorts of shady services aimed at everybody from the humble do-it-yourself hacker to sophisticated, organized criminal gangs. “Just like there is a B2B marketplace, now there’s a C2C — criminal-to-criminal — market,” said Don Jackson, security researcher with Atlanta-based security vendor SecureWorks Inc.