Image courtesy of Business Insider
Brett Johnson, now Chief Criminal Officer at Arkose Labs and a former Secret Service informant who continued committing identity theft while working for the agency, warns that easy access to bot marketplaces like Genesis Market is one of the biggest threats on the internet. Johnson tells Business Insider that sophisticated bot tools once available only to a small elite are rapidly becoming mainstream — a shift he says is accelerating as economic conditions worsen and more people are motivated to try cybercrime. He describes how a single Genesis Market purchase can deliver everything a low-level hacker needs to target major institutions like Chase or Bank of America.
