Criminal Classifieds: Malware Writers Wanted
Summary: Krebs on Security reported in June 2011 that criminal gangs were posting banner ads on underground forums recruiting programmers to build custom crypters that obfuscate known malware to evade anti-virus signatures. One ad offered a base salary of $2,000 per month for a long-term crypter partnership with customer support, another promised up to $5,000 per month, and a third offered at least $2,000 per completed Web inject written for the ZeuS and SpyEye trojans.
What you should know: The ads show malware crews paying weekly salaries and offering raises for timely work, which means the people maintaining the code targeting your bank logins are retained staff, not hobbyists - and a single Web inject built for ZeuS or SpyEye can prompt a victim for their challenge-question answers at login.
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