01-12-2006, 09:24 AM
Quote:Malware has truly evolved during the last couple of years. Its potential for financial and network based abuse was quickly realized, and thus, tactics changed, consolidation between different parties occurred, and the malware scene became overly monetized, with its services available on demand.
What are the driving forces behind the rise of malware? Who's behind it, and what tactics do they use? How are vendors responding, and what should organizations, researchers, and end users keep in mind for the upcoming future? These and many other questions will be discussed in this article, combining security experience, business logic, a little bit of psychology, market trends, and personal chats with knowledgeable folks from the industry...
  * In the first six months of 2005, on average there were identified 10,352 bots per day
  * During Jan-Jun 2005, the daily volume of phishing attacks was 5.70B messages
  * Between Jan-Jun 2005 DdoS attacks grew by more than 680%, to 927 per day on average, compared to 119 per day during the first half of 2004
  * Educational institutions and small businesses(end users included) was the most targeted by industry
full article: http://www.whitedust.net/article/45/Futu...f_Malware/
download the full article (.PDF format): http://www.packetstormsecurity.org/paper...trends.pdf