How my Botnet Purchased Millions of Dollars in Cars and Defeated the Russian Hackers

Presented at DEF CON 21 (2013), Aug. 2, 2013, 5 p.m. (45 minutes)

This is the true story of a botnet that created a competitive advantage for a car dealership. This dealership found a website that offered returned lease vehicles-great cars for their inventory-but bad web design and heavy competition from other automotive dealerships made the website useless. In response, a botnet was developed to make automotive purchases with machine precision. With the bot, they could acquire any cars they wanted, without interference from competing dealerships. During its one-year life, this botnet autonomously acquired many millions of dollars in cars. Along the way, it successfully adjusted to competition from a similar bot developed by Russian hackers while maintaining a sufficiently low profile to “stay below the radar” of everyone involved.


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