The purveryors of malware are becoming increasingly well-organised and financed, according to vendor?Symantec‘s?Internet Security Threat Report.
In the past?e-criminals made money from selling code, estiablishing botnets, or spamming, but gangs are now performing all three functions themselves to provide more co-ordianated attacks.
‘We are starting to see blended threats much more,’ said Ollie Whitehouse, researcher at Symantec. ‘This is a stark contrast to how things were working a year ago. There is more financial backing to these criminals now: the organized crime aspect has definitely increased.’
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Blair
March 19th, 2007 at 10:57 pm
1You may have noticed the last three articles reference the same Symantec report, however they all have different headlines, and slightly different analysis of the data. I thought it was interesting.