Malicious code that comes with release notes?
New security report shows that’s how sophisticated cybercriminals have become
By Robert Mullins
Network World
I was astonished when Mike Dausin of security provider HP TippingPoint briefed me on a new state of network security report and explained how much more sophisticated writers of malicious code had become. Their code is much cleaner than it had been in years past and that recently, some updated versions of this code had actually come with release notes.
“When you think about code having release notes, that implies a level of maturity that just wasn’t there before,” said Dausin, manager of advance security intelligence for TippingPoint, whose DVLabs unit conducts research into network vulnerabilities and helped produce “The Top Cyber Security Risks Report,” which was published today.
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