The bot marketplace is used by hackers to sell data stolen from victims’ devices with bot malware.
According to one of the world’s largest VPN service providers NordVPN, around five million people globally have had their data stolen and sold on the bot market, including 600,000 from India, making the country a become the worst affected country.
The bot market is used by hacker sell stolen data from victim’s device using bot malware.
Research by NordVPN, of Lithuania northern Security, said the stolen data included user logins, cookies, digital fingerprints, screenshots and other information, with an average price for a digital identity of a person. person is 490 Indian rupees ($5.95).
NordVPN has been tracking data for the past four years, since the bot market was launched in 2018.
India has been addressing cybersecurity concerns for some time. As recently as last month, multiple servers of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), a federal government hospital that caters to ministers, politicians and the general public, were infected with the virus. 23, a senior police official told Reuters.
A week after the ransomware attack on AIIMS, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) faced around 6,000 hacking attempts within 24 hours on November 30, Times of India reported.
India’s cybersecurity rules were only tightened earlier this year, with India’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) requiring tech companies to report data breaches within six hours. since noticing such incidents and maintain IT logs and communications for six months.
NordVPN’s research looked at three main bot markets – the Genesis market, the Russian Market, and 2Easy – and discovered stolen logins including logins from Google, Microsoft and Facebook accounts.
“What makes bot markets different from other dark web markets is that they can pull in huge amounts of data about one person in one place,” said Marijus Briedis, chief technology officer of NordVPN.
“And after the bot is sold, they assure the buyer that the victim’s information will be updated as long as their device is infected with the bot.”
NordVPN researchers found 667 million cookies, 81,000 digital fingerprints, 538,000 autocomplete forms, multiple device screenshots and webcam snapshots in their research.
