At Webroot’s Threat Blog, we often discuss the dynamics of the cybercrime ecosystem. Through the prism of basic business, marketing and economic theories, the idea is to help make them easy to comprehend by most readers. Constructively raising awareness on some of the driving factors behind the epidemic growth of cybercrime. We also often emphasize on concepts such as standardization, vertical integration, for hire, rent or on demand business models, commoditization and economies of scale. This further highlights the legitimate market-like state of the underground marketplace, in terms of the variety of business models, pricing schemes, and current/long term centered business strategies.
In this post, we’ll put the spotlight on an efficiency-centered administration panel for a DIY (do it yourself), self-service type of E-shop script, to be used by prospective cybercriminals as a turn-key conversion solution for their fraudulently obtained assets. In this case, the ability to efficiently sell access to compromised accounts. Not only has this E-shop script have the potential to empower virtually anyone with the ability to sell their goods, but in this particular case, the vendor is promising to donate some of the revenue for philanthropic purposes.
