The era of mass Internet attacks is over

[Deleted member 178]

A lot of the easy money in Internet attacks is gone. Now you have to do some homework and pick your targets more carefully to get a rewarding rate of return on your crimes.

A report from Cisco says that the nature of attacks on the Internet is changing. Dumb, old-fashioned mass-spammed attacks, and spam itself, are losing their financial motivation and decreasing in frequency.

A Dark Reading report on the Cisco analysis says that targeted attacks cost 5 times as much as a mass attack to pull off, but bring in 10 times the profit. Cisco says the payoff from targeted attacks can be impressive. Targeted attack victims are valued at $80,000 apiece...

:link: http://www.betanews.com/article/The-era-of-mass-Internet-attacks-is-over/1309550800

Botnet decapitation...:dodgy:

 

[Vextor]

Never will that happen. Do you expect all the hackers in the world to know this? Because they won't, there will always be a danger.