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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. And just yesterday by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    They couldn't get along!

    1. Re:And just yesterday by networkBoy · · Score: 3, Interesting

      I think I can reconcile this:
      There will be a few groups who work in strategic alliances. The very scary part about this will be the "power" behind some of the malware campaigns. I think CoreWars, running on every windowz box that isn't hardened really is going to happen.
      This should prove to be interesting, especially when governments step in with the non-judiciary non-legislative branches because a real security leak is caused by one of these programs. Think a pissed off NSA (not a politicking one) of the "good 'ol days".
      -nB

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  2. Public disclosure... by PincheGab · · Score: 4, Interesting

    So where does this place public disclosure advocates? Are people going to demand that makers of affected software have a 24/7 programming staff ready to plug leaks just so weakenesses can de disclosed immedately? In light of this even I would favor not publicly disclosing weaknesses immediately!

  3. Organized Crime? by jellomizer · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Isn't this the same as orginized crime. So a bunch of internet thugs orginize to advertise more stuff, because they realized it will be more effective if they worked togeth. Will this rise the cost of protection money to use the internet?

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  4. No surprise- by IWantMoreSpamPlease · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Used to be (way back in 2003 or so) AdAware was all you needed (and Norton AV or a workalike)

    But now, man some of the things I've seen are really nasty!

    You wipe 'em out, they come back, they hide from searches, morph into other programs, I've even seen one (I shit you not, I've been in IT for 10+ years, never seen anything like this one!) that was active even when the infected drive was placed as a slave on another machine, it started right up and infected the new PC.

    This goes way beyond simple syware, these people are teaming up and it's just the beginning.

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  5. serve yourself and save by to_kallon · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "They work in groups that exchange information with other groups on forums and Web sites."
    erhmm....
    ianase (i am not a security expert) but wouldn't that statement apply to, hmmmm....., oh i don't know.....THE INTERNET?? seriously, a broad, vague, statement like that suggests to me that this is mostly overreaction on the part of a group who could experience significant gains IF their statements were true.
    fud? imho, yes.

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