Promoting your malware by Twitter – what next an iPhone app?
- Author: Toby
- Filed under: Business, Culture media and sport, Economy, Information security, Technology
Jun 4,2010
It is a fact universally acknowledged that organised criminality is now heavily engaged in cyber-crime.
So much so that a secondary market has developed of entrepreneurs selling cyber-crime services to less technically advanced criminals.
The “malware authoring community” is apparently now promoting its activities on Twitter.
So what next?
An iPhone app?
It sounds as if we are getting close.
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[...] few months I half-flippantly suggested that now that malware producers were offering their services via Twitter the next stop was an [...]
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