Sizing up the malware threat - key malware trends for 2010

摘要

Malware has changed over the past decade, evolving from being a bedroom operation run by solitary teenage boys to become a major money-making industry in its own right.rnThe malware business has a complicated economic infrastructure and a population of well-organised, well-funded criminal gangs; highly motivated and skilled programmers churning out massive volumes of malicious code and exploits; and creative thinkers dreaming up new and more sophisticated methods of bypassing the weakest link in any electronic security system - the human mind.