A few years ago, when I was a reporter at The Washington Post, I put together a chart listing the various ways that miscreants can monetize hacked PCs. The project was designed to explain to the sort of computer user who cant begin to fathom why hackers would want to hack into his PC. I recently updated the graphic to include some of the increasingly prevalent malicious uses for hacked PCs, including hostage attacks and reputation hijacking on social networking forums. I’m building a running list of applications, simple tools that can help on this front, available here.”]
Source: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2012/10/the-scrap-value-of-a-hacked-pc-revisited/