STC on why your password could be worth a lot more than you might think.
Selling access to networks is both a more significant and smaller business than you might imagine. One thing's for sure: there's big money being made by bad actors.Thanks primarily to the growth of ransomware, the sale of access to compromised networks has become a criminal business sector of its own. The Initial Access Broker market is where cybercriminals buy their way into a business network rather than doing the hard work themselves.
With prices of such access hitting a high of more than half a million dollars in one case, and some IABs thought to be working directly with criminal groups for a percentage of any ransom received, it's a big business, alright. One that, recent research would suggest, is dominated by just seven individual brokers on the dark market., seven vendors across dark and deep web forums were the sources of a majority of compromised access offerings. For example, with the username of pshmm, one includes detailed listings the capabilities a buyer can expect; the transfer, delivery and execution of files, running of commands, disabling of security software, and access to the Active Directory amongst them.
"The diversified and specialist role of criminal access brokers is a growing and disturbing dark market trend," Ian Thornton-Trump, CISO at threat intelligence specialists Cyjax, says. According to Thornton-Trump, there are four primary vectors used by criminal access brokers when putting together what he calls these target reconnaissance as-a-service packages.
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