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Malware as a Service

Jeremiah Grossman:

Most of the time us webappsec people are a world’s apart from the traditional A/V and malware industry involved in reverse engineering rootkits, creating signatures, taking down botnets, tracking fraud, etc. We read the headline snippets sure, but don’t really have the time to keep up with what’s happening at ground level.

So when Scott Berinato of CIO.com passed along his latest and VERY in depth thee-part article documenting the evolution Malware Industry through infiltrating fraud rings, I was definitely interested. The text is definitely illuminating as it talks about groups such as the Russian Business Network, ShadowCrew, HangUp Team, 76service and others and how they’re turning the industry into “Malware as a Service” (MaaS).

Web 2.0 models are for everyone I guess.

posted by Fergie @ 10/09/2007 08:20:00 PM