Cybercrime Continues Evolution to More Business-like Model
Symantec's recent report on Internet security includes statistics collected from computers used by customers and the findings are chilling but frankly not unexpected. According to the San Jose Mercury News - Online hacking organized, report says:
While the security industry has shown increasing concern about the professionalization of online crime for more than a year, the new data describe a massive, sophisticated shadow information economy, with huge lists of bank account information, e-mail addresses, and even World of Warcraft online video game accounts bought and sold in bulk.
The number of botnets
increased by 29 percent from early 2006 to 6,049,594. Yet the number of command-and-control systems, which run the bot networks, dropped by 25 percent to 4,746.
A recent report from McAfee's SiteAdvisor group found malware threats from Web sites is fairly well distributed around the Web, indicating diversification of the threat, according to M&C Tech:
The numbers and stats they show are somewhat well rounded, and points not to the country or nationality as the risk, but a trend that the most abused domains are the ones that are quick and easy to obtain.
The McAfee report is available at http://www.siteadvisor.com/studies/map_malweb_mar2007.html.
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