About 1 in every 6 sites set up by criminals to steal information is created with hacking-for-dummies-style “toolkits,” a security researcher said Tuesday.
“About 15 percent of malicious sites designed to steal information have kit code or a derivation of kit code,” said Dan Hubbard, the vice president of security research at San Diego-based Websense. The most popular hacker toolkits are made and sold by Russian entrepreneurs, and include the well-known “WebAttacker” and the less-familiar “Nuclear Grabber” (aka “Haxdoor”).