iT News: Botnets power growing malware cloud

Vendor warns of growing hire-a-hacker market.

By Liz Tay
Nov 23, 2010

Today's exploit developers needed only a "couple of racks of good servers" and a botnet farm to service the growing malware-as-a-service market, security vendor M86 has warned.

The firm this week predicted that what it called "cloud-based malware services" would become more common in 2011, enabling under-resourced, would-be attackers to enter the world of cybercrime.

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