I was reading an NYTime article on the increase in Malware and how the people behind Malware and online scams are becoming more professional. (Thieves Winning Online War, Maybe Even in Your Computer)
I have been seeing a number of articles on similar trends and I would expect this to only go up. After all as people move towards a more digital life that is the place were more money is being spent. And so that is the place where more money can be stolen.
But the most interesting para was:
The sophistication of the programs has in the last two years begun to give them
almost lifelike capabilities. For example, malware programs now infect computers
and then routinely use their own antivirus capabilities to not only disable
antivirus software but also remove competing malware programs. Recently,
Microsoft antimalware researchers disassembled an infecting program and were
stunned to discover that it was programmed to turn on the Windows Update feature
after it took over the user’s computer. The infection was ensuring that it was
protected from other criminal attackers.
So we now need malware to turn on Windows Update. :)
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