On Sat, 11 Jun 2011, Nick FitzGerald wrote: > Nowadays the big, noisy, obvious, "own the net" type "outbreak" of > yesteryear is not the model of choice for your typical cyber-thug (you > know, those running virtually all malware these days).. > > In fact, _avoiding_ exactly that is pretty much top of their list of > desiderata.
How do we know this? I mean, it seems kind of circular to say "We haven't seen another Code Red II for a while, so the malware writers are doing other things." Of course they are off doing other things: we haven't seen another Code Red II in years. What other evidence exists? _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/