Cyber Crime: In today’s world, some people are calling data as the new gold. From hackers to many companies, everyone wants data. Recently, news related to data is coming to the fore. According to an estimate by NordVPN, the data of at least 5 million people has been stolen. The stolen data of these 5 million people is also being sold on the bot market at a nominal price. You will be surprised to know, but the name of our country India is at the top in the chart of this sold data. Now what is this whole matter? In today’s news we will talk about this.
What is bot market?
Whenever the word bot falls in our ears, we usually associate the word bot with an automatic program. A program designed to repeat a set of instructions. On the contrary, it has a different meaning in the world of hackers. In this, data-harvesting malware is considered a bot. Apart from this, bot market is a place for hackers, which is used by hackers to sell hacked data.
What is included in the data?
Now here we are using only one word – data, but the word data includes a lot in itself. In most of the cases, it has been seen that the data includes personal information like logins, cookies, digital fingerprints and screenshots. Yes, your screenshots too. You will be further surprised to know that users’ data is being sold on the bot market with an average price of Rs 490 per user’s data. Now talking about the number of these users, it includes data of more than 600 million users. The name of our country India is at the top of the chart of this selling data.
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