The number of hackers will increase sharply in 2008

Malware authors have tended to increase dramatically in 2008, creating a very prosperous underground economy. That is a judgment from security technology researchers.

Almost everyone involved in computer-related illegal activities is anonymous and hidden. Regardless of the insiders, only a few appearances appear after being brought into law. Typically, a 3-year prison sentence with 2 hackers aged 21 and 27 because of fraudulent acts of millions of dollars in the US last September. Next is the 24-year-old Jason Michael Downey hackers who are sentenced to 12 months imprisonment for acts of organizing and operating ghost computer networks.

It is noteworthy that hackers are not only connected to each other in several separate communities. Don Jackson, who works at SecureWorks, said: " Hackers are no longer alone. Besides the emergence of malware, hackers also form a separate society, each of which has coins. In order to establish a new social network, they can also receive more support for attack schemes, such as exchanging software tools or sharing exploited information. On a larger scale, hackers can hire a computer network for this activity . "

Along with the increased damage from cybercrime in 2007, the list of participants is also expanding with younger members and high computer literacy, this has risen. concerns about security situation in 2008 will be full of turbulence.

Anh Tu