Cybercriminals Shifting Focus To Non-Windows OSes

Orome1 writes "In a major cybercrime turning point, scammers have begun shifting their focus away from Windows-based PCs to other operating systems and platforms, including smart phones, tablet computers, and mobile platforms in general, according to the a new Cisco report. The report also finds that 2010 was the first year in the history of the Internet that spam volume decreased, that cybercriminals are investing heavily in 'money muling,' and that users continue to fall prey to myriad forms of trust exploitation."

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Re:Thank God....

[Just Some Guy]

No it is not. It is a professionally admined system that is outnumbered one to millions by clients where my malware will live happily undected for a long time, and where a couple of clean-ups - that is highly likely on the Apache server -- won't affect the malware network at all.

Yeah. That Linux server wouldn't be very valuable as a long-term botnet member. About the only useful information you could get out of such a server would be the database system it's connected to and all the credit card information it processes - hardly even worth bothering with.

Seriously: did you think about that at all before posting, or did you just click Submit and hope for the best?