Source code for the once-mighty Carberp bank Trojan is being offered for sale at an asking price of $50,000 (APS33,000) on a criminal forum security firm Trusteer has reported. The source code is complete with a newly-coded and harder-to-detect Chinese rootkit module, for the eminently reasonable rouble equivalent of half a ton. The seller was credible, offering considerable detail on the wares and its capabilities, the firm said. It was possible that the source code would be bought in order to form the core of a new malware family.”]

