Data theft has become the raison d’etre for malware on the Internet, according to security vendor Symantec. As in previous years, the vendor reported upticks in data thefts, malware and phishing scams. What is different about this year, said Alfred Huger, vice president of engineering at Symantec Security Response, is that data theft has become the norm. “The trend has always been there — hackers have always been interested in financial gain. Now, though, it seems that every piece of malicious code on the Internet somehow ties back to data theft.”
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Report: Money Makes Malware World Go Round
Posted by: Erika Morphy March 19, 2007 01:13 PMData theft has become the raison d’etre for malware on the Internet, according to security vendor Symantec. As in previous years, the vendor reported upticks in data thefts, malware and phishing scams. What is different about this year, said Alfred Huger, vice president of engineering at Symantec Security Response, is that data theft has become the norm. “The trend has always been there — hackers have always been interested in financial gain. Now, though, it seems that every piece of malicious code on the Internet somehow ties back to data theft.”