Reddit reviews Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime-from Global Epidemic to Your Front Door
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There is a Threat Lurking Online with the Power to Destroy Your Finances, Steal Your Personal Data, and Endanger Your Life.
You should really read Brian Krebs' book, Spam Nation (non-affiliate amazon link). Whether you like Krebs' stuff or not, his book covers essentially all of this. He talks a lot about these sorts of things while telling his story with some notorious Russian individuals. Such as private hosts or hosts that are known as "safe" to generally unwanted customers. Even common tactics for how the services/hosts are paid for (stolen credit cards, bitcoins, etc).
As for how, anyone with some programming experience and determination can make a lightweight server and client program to do what they need. Having many clients report to a server program (or three) is a good topic to study if you're into programming. Others find open-source programs and modify them to do what they need. Obviously distributing a client program is a very different topic, that I won't discuss here
On aforementioned Brian Krebs' blog? He wrote a book too:
https://www.amazon.com/Spam-Nation-Organized-Cybercrime-Epidemic/dp/1402295618/