The malware industy
As indicated in the previous post, creating and marketing malware is becoming an organized industry. InfoWorld reports on the growing problem:
The latest iteration of Symantec’s Internet Security Threat Report — covering its research over the final six months of calendar 2007 and released on Tuesday at the ongoing RSA Conference 2008 in San Francisco — finds that malware authors and the ecosystem of constituencies supporting cyber-crime are advancing the sophistication of their efforts at a staggeringly expeditious pace.
From the groups of exploit developers marketing malware toolkits to aspiring attackers to the people buying and selling stolen credentials, the entire landscape of electronic crime is taking off and increasingly resembles the security software community that is working to thwart it, Symantec researchers said.
Symantec says that there is now more malicious code being created worldwide than there is legitimate software.
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