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Researchers at Cisco recently got a rare glimpse of the inner workings of the botnet underworld after going undercover and meeting an actual botmaster online: the botmaster, who ran a botnet that had infected dozens of machines at a Cisco customer site, said his main job is to compromise a few thousand machines and then sell them off in bulk.

He told a Cisco researcher posing as a fellow botmaster that the market rate for a bot is between 10 cents to 25 cents per machine, and that he recently made $800 off of a sale of 10,000 bots.

But that rate is likely a moving target, says Joe Dallatore, senior manager in Cisco’s security research and operations group. “At this point we have a snapshot [in time]” of the botnet market rate, Dallatore says. “There is an economy for these things, and it changes over time this is a form of commerce, with supply and demand.”

And the botmaster isn’t out to perform identity theft — just bot-brokering. “He was not in the business of using information [on the bots]. Just in creating bots and selling them to someone else,” Dallatore says.

Cisco decided to go undercover and learn more about the botnet market after cleaning up infected machines at their customer’s site. “This gave us an opportunity to learn what motivated” the botmaster, Dallatore says.
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