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When Malware Authors Combine Efforts

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the you-don't-like-your-data-anyway dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Spammers, Hackers and virus writers are all teaming up according to some russian security researchers. This means that they reckon that weaknesses will be exploited in a matter of hours of being announced, rather thant the weeks and months that we're seeing now. Scary stuff."

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  1. Re:Uhm.. You know those russian security experts by chris88 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Kaspersky is to blame, not Russians in general.

    They also predicted "Internet Terrorist Attack" in August.

  2. Move along, nothing to see here by worktheweb · · Score: 3, Informative

    These are the same guys who were predicting an "Internet Meltdown" a little while back -- I'd take their prognostications with a grain of salt ...

    http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/25/1 53 3213&tid=172&tid=95&tid=1