Website in Russia sells hacked administrator accounts

Webroot has discovered a website from Russia that is selling hacked administrator accounts from legitimate websites. Tens of thousands of legitimate websites with high page rank on the Web, marketplace self-service, can be acquired by any malicious user who wants to distribute malware or carry out other malicious plans.

Buyers can for a specific TLD, by search domain pricepage rank,  , age languageAlexa ranking ,, and number of pages in Google's index.

The "markets" are of course exploited, as we mentioned above, in a multitude of ways. From Blackhat SEO (Search Engine Optimization), to direct hosting of malware and phishing websites.