![]() ![]() Once the license subscription expires, you would need to purchase a new subscription to continue using it. Some exploit kit licenses have validity periods. They (the exploit kit developers) then sell their kits to people like Joe. The people who develop exploit kits purchase exploits from exploit authors and package them into one tool. That’s where exploits kits come in.Īn exploit toolkit or kit is a tool, usually written in PHP, that already comes with a collection of exploits. It would be so much easier if he could only deal with one vendor. That means, he would have to communicate with several parties. It gets even more complicated because different exploits might be written by different authors. If Joe wants to infect those systems too, he needs to acquire exploits for those vulnerabilities as well. So if Joe only targets one vulnerability, chances are he would only be able to compromise a few systems, while ignoring other systems that have other vulnerabilities. It’s hard to predict what vulnerabilities are present in a system. One exploit typically can only target one vulnerability. So if an attacker like Joe gets a hold of an exploit, is he good to go? Not quite yet. The prices of these exploits vary, with zero-day exploits generally priced higher. These tiny programs or pieces of code are called ‘exploits’ and can be purchased through black hat hacking forums. Luckily, people have already written programs for doing just that. One way to do that is by taking advantage of certain vulnerabilities in the system. He still needs to deliver the malware onto a victim’s system. Joe then realizes that ransom malware by itself is not enough. Being morally flexible, Joe decides to launch a ransomware campaign. ![]() Let’s say that Joe reads this article and learns that ransomware campaigns can be quite lucrative. There are those who carry out cyber attacks by simply relying on ready-made tools they purchased in black hat marketplaces on the dark web. What drives people to create exploit kits?Ĭontrary to what most people think, not everyone who commits cyber crime has the technical skills to “hack into a system”. In this post, we take a closer look at exploit kits, where they fit in the cybercrime industry, what’s inside a typical toolkit, and most importantly, how they work.īefore we talk about what an exploit kit (EK) is and how it works, let’s first discuss the financial incentive for developing these kits. These days, that vehicle is most often an exploit kit. Attackers who want to infect systems with malware usually need a vehicle to reach as many infections as possible.
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