Dark Reading: Crimeware Toolkits Driving Most Online Malware

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Symantec report connects the dots in rise in malware and easy-to-use crimeware kits

Jan 20, 2011
By Kelly Jackson Higgins

DIY crimeware kits are all the rage -- more than 60 percent of malicious websites use these toolkits to do their dirty work, while the other 40 percent are suspected of doing so, according to a new report from Symantec.

And while the kits aren't exactly point-and-click, they do lower the bar for less technical bad guys to get into cybercrime.

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