Google Says Spam, Virus Attacks to Get More Clever

eweekhickins writes "Google's Postini team says new attacks will take the form of sneaky viruses that will blend with spam, leveraging specific current events, such as the Super Bowl or the Summer Olympic Games. Better yet, virus attacks will target executives at companies whose intellectual property is deemed valuable on the black market. A lot of these attacks will masquerade as legitimate business agencies, such as the Internal Revenue Service, the Better Business Bureau and the SEC."

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Crims get more entrepreneurial

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Who's suprised that the crims get more clever about the way they craft their attacks? As it gets harder to fool people with fake Viagra ads and bank phishing and other lower hanging fruit, it makes sense to start putting more effort into targeting the bigger prizes. More effort sure, but better prizes too.

Crims have always been good at adapting and exploiting conditions. The Mafia really got their power due to exploiting the prohibition. Cable thieves in South Africa are using rolling blackout schedules to plan their cable thefts.

As more business services are done online it makes sense to phish for more than some lame paypal accounts.