Several years ago, the main aim of cyber-crooks was to achieve notoriety with their creations, that is, to be famous. In order to do so, they wanted to attract as much attention as possible and causing massive epidemics was their springboard to fame
Their motivation has changed and now is purely economic. The best way to obtain money is to carry out malicious actions as stealthily as possible. It has become a usual technique to hide malware creations using rootkits, such as the famous Stormworm family.
This trend has made malware creation become a very lucrative business.
However, we still come across with samples as eye-catching as W32/MSNworm.EI.worm, which spreads via the MSN Messenger and displays a funny picture of a little pig sending us a kiss while it is infecting our computer:
Posted under Malware Alerts
This post was written by Ted on April 16, 2008
