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06:46 8th June 2011
Despite the recent developments in the IT industry, malware software hasn't really developed in the last 25 years, according to David Emm, senior regional researcher, UK, Global Research & Analysis Team at Kaspersky Lab.
"Broadly, the same sorts of techniques infecting, in the whole, a computer haven't actually changed that much over 25 years," he said.
"What has changed is the motivation of people writing [the malware] and the people using it. And that's really because the motivation is very much tied not so much to the technology but to what that technology allows us to do," he explained.
The expert went onto say that that explains why cybercrime only became mainstream a few years ago since people hadn't really began using the internet to carry out routine transactions - which include things like banking and shopping.
He said that we have recently been experiencing "a malware landscape dominated by cybercrime".
His comments emerged as McAfee reported that the first quarter of this year saw the largest ever number of unique malware samples, exceeding six million.
Posted by Derek Oldman
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