The Security Mentor

Kaspersky Anti-Virus analyst Yury Mashevsky writes about recent trends in malicious software.

The big change from a year or two ago, of course, is that organized crime is doing computer attacks for money now. Attackers now want profit instead of notoriety.

Mashevsky reports that Trojan Horses delivered by spam are becoming the most typical attack, and predicts that they'll be more closely targeted in the future. He's right -- the industrial espionage scandal in Israel illustrates his point.

He expects the current crop of mild viruses (one even asked for permission to install itself!) on mobile phones to get much nastier as soon as enough people start using their phones to make payments.