The Russian Hacking marketplace site displays the following marketing lure, "Russia Hackers is pleased to announce RH2.5 KIt ver 2011 that users can use to hack & secure computer systems by knowing exactly how a hacker would break into it."

The list of hacking tools and techniques contained in the RH2.5 Kit ver 2011 includes malware development, exploit development guide, credit card hacking, and how to download any Apple apps free of cost. But wait, there's more! You also get advice and guidance for how to spread your malicious attack to 100,000 victims per day--all very important tools for ethical "whitehat" hackers to employ in protecting a network.

Fred Touchette of AppRiver , "While some of these tools can be and are used by true security professionals, such as SET (The Social Engineers Toolkit) and Metasploit, many of them have no ethical purpose whatsoever."

And that is just the PDF guide--normally $200 USD, but on sale now for a mere $100. If you invest $250 (also half off the "normal" price of $500), you get actual tools and services including a Yahoo Messenger , DDOS (distribute denial of service) attack shells, and an e-mail bomber capable of blasting at a time.

Touchette adds "This one even includes access to one of the latest botnets out there--SpyEye. SpyEye, has been going toe to toe with its rival Zeus since late last year, and has been making some pretty big waves in the security community. I'm not sure how leveraging this botnet and all of the innocent PCs turned zombies is in any way even close to ethical."