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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!

  2. 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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    So rise up, all ye lost ones, as one, we'll claw the clouds.