ITworld: Malware may be the boomingest niche in a slow economy

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Change in focus from sabotage to stealing will make cybercrime even more lucrative

By Kevin Fogarty
November 03, 2011

Looking in vain for any bright spots in the current economy? Wondering if the economy will beat out mutant microbes, global climate change, zombie epidemics or robot insurgencies as the one thing that will push human civilization over the edge of sanity and into a Mel Gibson movie?

If it helps at all, there is one shining bright spot in the technology universe, one area of specialty in which spirits are high, technical barriers are falling, new markets are opening and the money is flowing deep as the Mississippi in Spring.

That is, we have to assume the money is flowing from the rush of new products and obvious enthusiasm with which they're being used. The developers are kind of reluctant to say.

That's the only thing they're reluctant about, though, according to PandaLabs, which released its quarterly report on activity in the global malware market.

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