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would allow a hacker to answer additional security questions or produce a fake identification, to
go along with a duplicate credit card." SecureWorks said in its report.

Stolen credit cards for U.S. accounts (including CVV numbers) is not changed respect previous

study conducted in 2011, they ranged from $4 to $8 per account, while European accounts
dropped from $21 to $18 today.

Cheaper is also the cost of a cyber attack on demand, for example a distributed denial-of-

service (DDoS)-for-hire attack that is quoted around $400. In June McAfee study found a DDoS-
for-hire service for $2 per hour, and another for $3 per hour, Dell SecureWorks report found
DDoS services anywhere from $3- to $5 per hour, $90- to $100 per day, and $400 to $600 a

month.

We can support in the absolute certainty that the model known as cybercrime-as-a-service has
been spreading because "It doesn't require any technical knowledge, and you don't even have

to own a computer,""You just need to pay" and you can outsource anything".

"This report shows that cybercrime is becoming more and more commoditized, turnkey, and the
bar to entry had become lower and lower as more people develop kits" "It's created a situation

where it's getting very easy for anyone to get into that business. I think these numbers confirm
it," Stewart says.

It is also quite easy to pay to get a website hacked, the cost runs from $100 to $300, curious the
fact that attackers don't hack government or military websites.

Botnets are very cheap, consider that an architecture composed of 1,000 bots go for $20, and

15,000, for $250 enough to arrange an illegal activity. Following the detailed price list.

There are thousands of compromised computers (bots) for sell by bot salesmen. The price per
computer typically decreases when they are bought in bulk. The costs for infected computers

(bots):

 1,000 bots = $20
 5,000 bots= $90

 10,000 bots = $160
 15,000 bots = $250
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