Malware and Cybercrime Tool Business is Booming
The BBC is reporting in Cyber crime tool kits go on sale on the maturing state of the malware tool business. We've seen how cyber criminals recruit like regular businesses so it's no surprise the market for malware tools looks a lot software markets in general.
Paul Henry, vice president of technology evangelism at Secure Computing, said the numbers of downloadable hacking tools was growing fast.According to Mr Henry there were more than 68,000 downloadable hacking tools in circulation. The majority were free to use and took some skill to operate but a growing number were offered for sale to those without the technical knowledge to run their own attacks, he said.
But, he added, many hacking groups were offering tools such as Mpack, Shark 2, Nuclear, WebAttacker, and IcePack that made it much easier for unskilled people to get in to the hi-tech crime game.
Mr Henry said the tools were proving useful because so many vulnerabilities were being discovered and were taking so long to be patched.
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