0 Your Computer Might be Traded Online - Without Your Knowledge

Security provider Finjan has released analysing a botnet trading platform. The "Golden Cash" platform allows criminals to buy and sell botnets with prices varying between $5 and $100 per 1000 computers. The platform also allows criminal to place "orders" for botnets of particular sizes and wait for offers.

Golden Cash also provides an exploit tool kit for infecting PCs and manipulating websites. Finjan's report suggests that this platform represents a highly lucrative system. See Finjan's report here for more details.