LAS VEGAS — Black market machine trading of PC and server resources is maturing at alarming speeds. Underground networks such as xDedic have fine-tuned their compute platform to the point where they are almost indistinguishable to legitimate networks such as Amazon Web Services and Rackspace. Those observations come from Israel Barak, head of incident response...

New data anonymously shared with Kaspersky Lab researchers may enlarge the scope of and provide additional context to the hacked RDP servers for sale on the now defunct xDedic marketplace. The underground marketplace was disclosed in a report published last Tuesday describing an eBay-style platform of more than 70,000 hacked servers, some of which could...

Criminals and advanced attackers for two years have had at their disposal an extensive trading platform selling access to hacked servers worldwide. For as little as $6 USD, attackers can purchase access to a compromised machine and launch attacks or get a one-time peek at all the data on a server. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab...