This report examines the digital marketplaces and methods through which botnets—networks of compromised computers controlled by a central "botmaster"—are illegally traded.
: Purchasing the underlying code of a botnet allows a buyer to build and manage their own infrastructure from scratch. Pricing Factors where to buy a botnet
: Users pay a subscription fee to use a botnet’s power for short-term Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against specific targets. This report examines the digital marketplaces and methods