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Industrial Cybercrime: Targeting Internet Hosting Services

Dan Sullivan writes on the McAfee Realtime Messaging and Web Security Blog:

It would seem that the cybercrime industry is bifurcated: there is the attack-the-unsecure-home-PC segment that goes after vulnerable Windows PCs and turns them into bots or infects them with keyloggers to steal bank account information; and then there is the segment that targets commercial and government operations, hacking databases, probing for vulnerabilities, disrupting operations with DDoS attacks (thanks to the botnets provided by the first segment), and either stealing data in bulk or going after targeted intellectual property.

I posted another comment today on comment on McAfee CEO David DeWalt's comment that cybercrime is now bigger than the drug trade. I'm thinking we're going to see more and more about the professionalization of cybercrime. At some point, we'll start to see the adoption of techniques that are used to combat professional, organized crime to how we control cybercrime.

posted by Fergie @ 9/19/2007 07:10:00 PM