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Are we losing the security war?
Comment Security experts are having to admit that traditional antivirus scanning approaches are no longer able to keep pace with the growth in malware products, increasingly purpose-designed by sophisticated criminal gangs, with product packers to defeat... [29 Apr 2008]
Europe dishing out more spam than US
News Fredrik Sjostedt, one of Symantec's European product marketing managers, told silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk that Symantec suspects gangs are taking advantage of the increasing European broadband market. [07 Feb 2008]
UK fraud hits 12-year high as methods go high-tech
News The UK suffered more than £1bn of fraud in 2007, 90 per cent of which was perpetrated by organised gangs carrying out ID theft and VAT scams, according to the KPMG Forensic Fraud Barometer. F is for Federated identity [04 Feb 2008]
Cyber criminals building more but smaller botnets
News The zombie army can be controlled remotely with the botnet creators usually trying to build the largest possible botnet of compromised computers to rent out to gangs for as little as $100 for a couple of hours. [28 Sep 2007]
Gangs groom kids for cyber crime
News Organised crime gangs, sometimes posing as legitimate employers, are using tactics which echo those employed by the KGB to recruit operatives at the height of the cold war, the McAfee report reveals. F is for Federated identity [08 Dec 2006]
F-Secure marks birth of first PC virus
News Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at F-Secure, said in a statement: "Certainly the most significant change has been the evolution of virus-writing hobbyists into criminally operated gangs bent on financial gain. [20 Jan 2006]
Is latest can of worms a cyber-crime turf war?
News There appear to be three different virus-writing gangs turning out new worms at an alarming rate, as if they were competing to build the biggest network of infected machines. Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, said: "Organised... [18 Aug 2005]
Virus writers undeterred by Microsoft bounty
News Potentially there is more money to be made being part of these gangs than collecting a bounty against them," said Donovan. According to Finnish antivirus firm F-Secure, the latest worm’s code included the following text: "we will work with MyDoom... [19 Oct 2004]
The weekly Round-Up: 25.06.04
Comment According to MessageLabs gangs of increasingly devious spammers are now using spyware installed on users' machines to harvest personal information which might make an email more clickable. It is with a heavy heart and slightly sore head that the... [25 Jun 2004]
