Spyware Dominates Malware Production

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It appears that the lone coder writing a virus as an attention-grabbing ploy is being outdone by those criminals with a monetary motive.

"We continue to see a tremendous upswing in spyware and extremely vicious Trojans... Electronic threats are becoming much less of a game and more of a concentrated effort designed to steal identities and data."

If there is a silver lining here, perhaps this trend will spur the authorities to punish all malware authors with something more than a mere slap on the wrist.

Source: The Register