PCWorld: Why you should care about cyber espionage

By Tony Bradley
Feb 1, 2013

Malware attacks have taken on new meaning over the last few years. Businesses and consumers are more or less used to the day-in and day-out of Trojans, phishing scams and such, but a new breed of much more complex and sophisticated threats has changed the game.

The Stuxnet and Duqu worms, as well as Flame, Gauss and Red October malware all appear to have been developed by nation states or well-organized terrorist groups. Each has had specific goals and precise targets. Unless youâ€™re specifically in the crosshairs of one of these cyber espionage attacks, you have nothing to worry about, right? Not exactly.

There are three ways anyone will feel the consequences of cyber espionage or cyber warfare threats, even if theyâ€™re not the intended target.

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