The 'Malware Economy' Evolves

superglaze writes "ZDNet UK has a feature on how the malware economy is turning into a recognizable traditional IT economy. Leasing botnets? Malware support? Welcome to the new age of computing. As the piece suggests, it's all gone Darwinian. 'One indication of the maturity of the black economy, according to Telafici, was the recent case of a hacker who wrote a packer [software used to bypass antivirus protection], "threw in the towel recently as it wasn't profitable enough -- there's too much competition. They opened the source code and walked away."'"

Comments

Re:Oblig..

[Frosty Piss]

A "cracker" is a "hacker".

Re:Crackers can be hackers but usually script kidd

[Frosty Piss]

Most crackers aren't hackers - they're just script kiddies...

You may not like it, it may hurt your ego a bit if you define yourself as a "hacker", but the truth is that "Skript Kiddies" are "hackers" too, just not very good ones.

The whole termonology is silly anyway.