Bad guys struggling due to “Good Guy” vendors but……
November 10th, 2007 Drazen Drazic Posted in Bad Developers, Bad Stuff, Dumb Security, MAC Security, Research, WTF, Web Application Security, cyber crime |
I like these stories that come out every so often from the anti-badware vendors to remind us that they are on top of the fight against the bad guys. From ZDNet; More malware means good news in the security fight.
Somehow, while attacks are on the rise, it seems that the good guys are making it hard on the bad guys:
“While the volume of malware threats has spiked recently, one expert believes that this is a good sign, with cybercriminals having to resort to increasingly desperate measures to get a result.”
WTF? Really?
“For one thing this means that they’ve had to cast their nets wider and pump out a vast amount more than they once had to,” said Ducklin.
The bad guys are on the backfoot:
“Secondly, it means they’ve had to employ increasingly complicated tactics to expose people, such as this PDF Trojan……………the fact that it sounds complicated can be taken as a sign that we’re beginning to do very well.”
This is on the back of Kaspersky reporting upper hand on the fight.
November 15th, 2007 at 8:23 pm
Well, knock me over with a feather, Mr Paul Ducklin of Sophos.
Criminals are using increasingly sophisticated tactics to commit crimes ? Who would have thought ? What an amazing insight into criminality !
Secondly, you argue increasingly complicated tactics are evidence that the crooks are on the back foot ? Mate, turn it up. I *really* think you’re stretching it there.
November 17th, 2007 at 12:44 am
Typical vendor speak from someone regurgitating BS from head office. I would be surprised if Ducklin could talk outside of what his software did.
November 24th, 2007 at 10:55 pm
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