A new service harvests mobile phone numbers advertised in the underground is the demonstration that mobile is becoming a privileged target for cybercrime. Botnets, mobile malware, ransomware, DDoS applications and hacking tools are becoming part of the offer in underground. The vendor also proposes SMS spamming and phone number verification service. Each customer could choose harvesting criteria for his demand, default options are: user ID on the Web site from where the mobile phone number was originally harvested. The accepted payment method for the service is WebMoney.”]
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