A major underground marketplace acting like an eBay for criminals is selling access to more than 70,000 compromised servers allowing buyers to carry out widespread cyber-attacks around the world, security experts said on Wednesday.Researchers at Kaspersky Lab, a global computer security firm based in Moscow, said the online forum appears to be run by a Russian speaking group. It offers access to hacked computers owned by governments, companies and universities in 173 countries, unbeknownst to the servers’ legitimate owners.

Access goes for as little as $6 for a compromised server. Each comes pre-equipped with a variety of software to mount denial-of-service attacks on other networks, launch spam campaigns, illicitly manufacture bitcoin currency or compromise online or retail payment systems, the researchers said.Starting at $7, buyers can gain access to government servers in several countries, including interior and foreign ministries, commerce departments and several town halls, said Costin Raiu, director of Kaspersky’s research and analysis team.

He said the market might also be used to exploit hundreds of millions of old, stolen email credentials reported in recent months to be circulating in the criminal underground.“Stolen credentials are just one aspect of the cybercrime business,” Raiu told Reuters in an interview. “In reality, there is a lot more going on in the underground. These things are all interconnected.”The marketplace goes by the name xDedic. Dedic is short for dedicated, a term used in Russian online forums for a computer under remote control of a hacker and available for use by other parties.

XDedic connects sellers of compromised servers with criminal buyers. The market’s owners take a 5 per cent up-front fee on all money put into trading accounts, Raiu said.Kaspersky found the machines run remote desktop software widely used by network administrators to provide technical support for Microsoft Windows users. Access to servers with high capacity network connections may cost up to $15.Low prices, searchable feature lists that advertise attack capabilities, together with services to protect illicit users from becoming detected attract buyers from entry-level cybercriminals to state-sponsored espionage groups.

An unnamed Internet service provider in Europe alerted Kaspersky to the existence of xDedic, Raiu said.High-profile targets include a U.S. aerospace firm, banks in the United States, Philippines, Kazakhstan, Jordan, Ghana, Cyprus, South Korea and Saudi Arabia, chemical firms in Singapore and Thailand and oil companies in China and the United Arab Emirates, Kaspersky found.Raiu declined to name the organizations. He said Kaspersky has notified national computer emergency response teams in several countries.

Oppo has achieved a major milestone with its popular F1 Plus smartphone in India and around the world. The company announced on Wednesday that the global sales of the F1 Plus smartphone averaged one sale per 1.1 second, adding up to a whopping seven million units so far.

Oppo launched the F1 Plus in India in April, but its international variant R9 was released in China in March. Ever since its release, the F1 Plus has been ranked among the best sellers, which helped Oppo stand well against some of the biggest industry giants. In March, the sales of R9 aka F1 Plus helped Oppo beat Samsung, Huawei and Apple in offline sales in China. Now, the company is celebrating yet another milestone, and on a global scale this time.

“We are very excited with the performance of OPPO F1 Plus. Our focus on camera technology and photography-focused F series has resulted in excellent results for the brand — first with OPPO F1 becoming the best-selling model and now OPPO F1 Plus recording great sales,” Sky Li, OPPO Global VP, said in a statement. “The acceptance from the consumers has been great and we believe that the reason behind this is the brand’s focus on taking consumer feedback seriously.”

Oppo’s new achievement follows recent feats, where it ranked fourth in the list of top five smartphone vendors globally and claimed the title of the best performing brand in the first quarter of 2016. Oppo said the promotional campaigns, distributors’ participation and undivided focus on the product were the key areas for its road to success.”We listen to users, and bring them meticulously designed, top-quality products that they’ll truly love. That’s what’s brought us this far and what will continue to drive us going forward,” Li added.

We reviewed Oppo F1 Plus in April and found it to be a complete bundle of great camera, performance and design. The handset comes with cutting-edge VOOC flash charging technology, an advanced 16MP front camera, excellent metallic design and ultra-fast fingerprint scanner among other features. The handset is priced at Rs. 26,990 in India, competing against the likes of Vivo V3 Max, OnePlus 2 and others.