virulent clouds: crimeware-as-a-service

Posted on March 7, 2010
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Another telling example of how the battle continues to rage between regular apps and… well, not-so-regular apps. The one-upmanship continues into the stratospheric realms of computing:

http://malwareint.blogspot.com/2010/01/crimeware-as-service-and-antivirus.html

And it makes sense, doesn’t it? Line up the current vanguard of antivir sniffer dogs in the cloud, toss up evil binaries to see which sniffers pick up the scent. Modify as needed, rinse and repeat. And then spray the net with the results. What *I* want to understand is why baddies run with technology that much faster, while the rest of us sheeples can’t even coordinate our defences in a similar manner.

Of course, a malware creator has really only one thing to look after, where as we have the entire suite of apps, systems and subsystems that make up our personal (or business) machines, to look after.  Sounds a lot similar to the human body’s neverending battle with diseases induced by single-minded – not to mention simple – enemies, actually.


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