Kaspersky: Virus Writers at War

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

This is _not_really_ news to may of you, but an interesting read,
for what its worth (the Kaspersky report).

Article via El Reg -- link to Kaspersky report therein.

[snip]

The confrontation between virus writers and the anti-virus industry is escalating, with malware authors also going 
after fellow VXers.

The dog eat dog atmosphere has resulted in cybercriminals stepping up their attacks against the security industry and 
government organisations, according to a report Kaspersky Labs published this week. The report, Malware Evolution 2005, 
Part II, puts the ramp up in the cyberhooligan activity down to greed. VXers are no longer satisfied with the profits 
to be made from infecting consumers, so they've stepped up their activity and adopted more aggressive tactics in a bid 
to increase the effectiveness of malware attacks.

According to Kaspersky, cybercriminals are tracking the activity of the anti-virus industry as closely as the 
anti-virus industry is tracking malware authors. For example, they use multi anti-virus scanners to test new 
modifications of existing malicious programs against vendors' anti-virus databases prior to their release.

[snip]

More:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/04/05/vxers_at_war/

- ferg


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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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