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Cybercriminals Are Adopting Corporate Best Practices

Posted by msmash on from the professionalism-in-everything-we-do dept.

Orome1 writes: Cybercriminals are adopting corporate best practices and establishing professional businesses in order to increase the efficiency of their attacks against enterprises and consumers. This new class of professional cybercriminal spans the entire ecosystem of attackers, extending the reach of enterprise and consumer threats and fueling the growth of online crime. Low-level criminal attackers are even creating call center operations to increase the impact of their scams. "Advanced criminal attack groups now echo the skill sets of nation-state attackers. They have extensive resources and a highly-skilled technical staff that operate with such efficiency that they maintain normal business hours and even take the weekends and holidays off," said Kevin Haley, director, Symantec Security Response. "We are even seeing low-level criminal attackers create call center operations to increase the impact of their scams."

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  1. Relief! Finally! by 140Mandak262Jamuna · · Score: 4, Funny
    I was very much worried about the cyber criminals. Despaired what/who could stop them.

    Finally, relieved. Corporate best practices! If that does not kill their efficiency and agility, nothing will. Hope the also implement agile rally scrum thingies complete with kanban board and daily dissing of waterfall development. Seven layers of managers telling the lone code monkey what to do, quarterly story point estimates, progress reports, burn down charts, ... the works. So much time will be spent in measuring progress and in planning meeting, nothing will ever get done. Great!

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    1. Re:Relief! Finally! by mlts · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I am not surprised. It can be asserted that malware is the best written software in existence today, because it had to be small, work flawlessly, and do its job well. Unlike most shops where "it builds, ship it" is the mantra, malicious software has to fly under the radar, or it will be detected and destroyed pretty quickly.

    2. Re:Relief! Finally! by PopeRatzo · · Score: 4, Funny

      I am not surprised

      Neither am I. After all, corporations have adopted criminal best practices for decades.

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  2. Question by The-Ixian · · Score: 4, Funny

    Do low-level criminal attackers create call center operations to increase the impact of their scams?

    I don't think this summary answered that question adequately.

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    1. Re:Question by wardrich86 · · Score: 4, Funny

      It'd still be better than calling Comcast

  3. Great, now even cybercriminals file TPS reports by Irick · · Score: 4, Funny

    Where am I going to fantasize about escaping the mediocrity of corporate existence now?

  4. Re:Since when do noisy call centers full of by duke_cheetah2003 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Indians speaking horrible English "increase the impact of their scams"?

    Unless by "increase the impact" they mean, "make it an obvious scam"...

    Oh I dunno, having Indians being their call center goons would legitimize them even more, since they'd be on par with actual legitimate businesses.