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Battleground Cyberspace

Spend a few a minutes with a security researcher, someone who works at one of the hundred plus antimalware companies, and you begin to realize that there is an ongoing battle between the good guys and the bad. Malware researchers are on the front lines. They capture samples via honey pots and customer reports, unpackage them, reverse engineer the executables so they can see the source code, and try to figure out what the nike lebron shoes on sale malware is doing. The story he tells paints a picture of determined adversaries with full time jobs delving deeper and deeper into business practices to generate the most profits.

One Trojan, Sinowall existed http://www.nikeshoesa.com/nike-lebron-c-82/ for over two years before it was discovered and is credited with stealing over 300,000 credentials. Initial infection is with a driveby download on an otherwise innocent site. The Trojan is location aware and can be tuned to only effect devices in a target region Germany for instance.

Etay also mentions the Nimkey Trojan that infiltrated a Romanian cement company late last year nike lebron shoes for sale and stole 1.6 million carbon credits from their trading account. The street value at the time was about $30 million. The attackers understood what they were after and laundered the credits across several countries before cashing out.

My own estimate is that there are about 10,000 white hat security researchers working full time to counter malware (100 vendors X 50 average and double that for independents.) I am cheap nike lebron shoes still working on an estimate of the number arrayed on the other side of this battle ground.