Malware Attacks Give Criminals 1,425% Return On Investment

An anonymous reader writes: Trustwave released a new report which reveals the top cybercrime, data breach and security threat trends. According to their findings, attackers receive an estimated 1,425 percent return on investment for exploit kit and ransomware schemes ($84,100 net revenue for each $5,900 investment). Retail was the most compromised industry making up 43 percent of investigations followed by food and beverage (13 percent) and hospitality (12 percent).

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Sliced and Diced

[Anonymous Coward]

I hope this is not true:

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/39x7w5/sourceforge_hijacks_firefox_project/

Don't use thousand separators internationally

[Anonymous Coward]

1,425% is ambiguous. It can be read as 1.425% by people who normally use commas as decimal separators. Thousand separators are meant to be used for clarity, but in an international forum they create confusion instead, so don't use them. Digit grouping is an alternative, but doing that in a typographically correct way requires non-breakable narrow spaces. Honestly, if you need help reading a four digit number, maybe reading isn't for you.

Re:Don't use thousand separators internationally

[meza]

Ah thank you. Coming from a country where we use comma as a decimal separator I actually did misread this and thought it was a pretty crappy return of investment (due to dissonance or something my brain decided not to interpret what was written within the parentheses).

New Investment Opportunity

[Virtucon]

So what the TFA is saying is that it's better for me to invest in Malware hackers than the S&P 500. Interesting. Now I'm wondering if there'll be an ETF or Mutual Fund available soon. Symbol: HX0R