There is value to using the same tools and techniques employed by malicious hackers as an exercise to identify and mitigate weak points in the network defenses, but the majority of the tools and services covered by the Russia Hackers toolkit have absolutely no place in any whitehat hacker or ethical security professional bag of tricks.

Touchette sums up, "As long as malignant groups of hackers remain out there making attempts to subsidize their other criminal activities by selling their warez as well, especially for this cheap, we're going to continue to see attacks from the script kiddies and the professional cybercriminals continue to grow."