Five years for Californian botmaster

✍ Scribed by Sarah Hilley

• Book ID: 104392310
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 163 KB
• Volume: 2006
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1353-4858
• DOI: 10.1016/s1353-4858(06)70393-2

✦ Synopsis

Trojans -cyber-blackmailers draw on that Greek legacy

The ancient Greeks have a lot to answer for. Three thousand years after the wooden horse idea entered their heads (and Troy), three quarters of malware threats today are trojan programs based on the same idea. Cyber-blackmail is now one of the key criminal motives.