Finjanhas
identified Crimeware-as-a-Service as the latest cybercrime business
model.
In its first-quarter
Web
Security Trends Report, Finjan says Crimeware-as-a-Service is
the latest development in the
ongoing commercialisation of cybercrime
Finjan says criminals have started to use online cybercrime
services instead of having to deal themselves with the technical
challenges of running their own crimeware server, installing
crimeware toolkits or compromising legitimate websites.
Yuval Ben-Itzhak, CTO of Finjan, said, "Currently, we are seeing
the rise of the Crimeware-as-a-Service (CaaS) business model in the
crimeware-toolkit market.
"Cybercriminals and criminal organisations are getting better
and better at protecting themselves from law enforcement by using
crimeware services, especially since the operator does not
necessarily conduct the criminal activities related to the data
that is being compromised, but only provides the infrastructure for
it," he said.
As with mainstream software providers, the creators and owners
of these crimeware toolkits provide their customer base with update
mechanisms, while tooling them with sophisticated, anti-forensic
attack techniques, as well as the ability to manage and monitor
malicious code affiliation networks.
It enables a new level of crimeware availability by supplying
anyone willing to purchase an easy-to-use crimeware toolkit, said
Finjan.
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