Malicious Hackers Resting On Their Laurels? Or Better At Hiding Their Tracks?

from the taking-vacation-early? dept

Mon, Dec 18th 2006 8:00pm — Mike Masnick

No wonder various organized online crime gangs are recruiting young hackers to join their ranks. It appears that they're in need of an injection of fresh creativity, according to at least one report. Apparently, there hasn't been much innovation in the malware space in the last few months, as malicious hackers have focused mainly on reusing old scamming code with a few tweaks, rather than coming up with something really new. Of course, that assumes that these security companies who monitor these things actually knows about what's going on. With the rise of the organized crime aspect of malicious hacking, many of the attempts at malware have focused on making them harder to spot. Perhaps they've just been succeeding.

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larry v, 18 Dec 2006 @ 8:28pm

and perhaps
they're all in jail :)

RIGHT!!!

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Matt, 18 Dec 2006 @ 8:31pm

Peace and Love
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PhysicsGuy, 18 Dec 2006 @ 8:52pm

for the most part they're recruiting younger people because that's the age being a "cyberpunk" hacker appeals to therefore that's who is available for hire. i know because that's is how i spent my youth. now that i'm all grown up (relatively speaking), i'm more interested in progressing the field of computation via quantum computation. of course, there's many years left of schooling for that. :)
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PhysicsGuy, 18 Dec 2006 @ 8:52pm

and please excuse all the tyops ;)
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Anonymous Coward, 18 Dec 2006 @ 9:49pm

Well, at least all of the recent cs college grads will be able to get some real experience...

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Glurbie, 19 Dec 2006 @ 3:28am

Cyber Warfare
Slightly off topic, but the US Air Force is currently setting up a cyberspace command to formalize offensive digital warfare. I wonder if they'll have a special ops cyberpunk commando unit?
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GuyWhoWantsEveryoneToKnowHeThinksHesAwesome, 19 Dec 2006 @ 9:25am

Re. PhysicsGuy
More shameless self-promotion...

Always the same with you. Thinly veiled narcissism.
Just get your own blog so i can not read it, will you?
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