Security Trends: Reflections About Today and Tomorrow
In this entry we would like to share some thoughts about the current situation in the e-security market. Here we need to distinguish between two rival parties: software vendors and cybercriminals. Let’s start with the latter group.
It seems like modern malefactors generate three major types of threats:
- “old style” viruses (both discovered long ago and unique);- custom malware (designed ad hoc and tailored to a definite group of computers); and- “legal†spyware.
By “legal†we mean a very curious factor concerning peculiarities of international law. Security products are not entitled to scan and unpack executable files and reveal fraudulent contents due to the fact that archiving vendors are protected by licensing agreements. Therefore, if a rogue program is packed by certain archivers, then it is legally exempted from any antimalware actions.
It’s common knowledge that custom malware usually disguises itself as benign or acts imperceptibly; a user won’t even notice any changes [...]
Original post by Agnitum BLOG and software by Elliott Back