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Malware Analysis and Antivirus Trends

The document summarizes the evolution of malware from hobbyists in the 1980s to organized criminals and state-sponsored actors today. It outlines key eras in malware development and the changing motivations of bad actors from mischief to financial gain. Charts show the rising volume of virus detections over time. The document cautions against initiating computer crimes and promotes ethical hacking education instead.

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Malware Analysis and Antivirus Trends

The document summarizes the evolution of malware from hobbyists in the 1980s to organized criminals and state-sponsored actors today. It outlines key eras in malware development and the changing motivations of bad actors from mischief to financial gain. Charts show the rising volume of virus detections over time. The document cautions against initiating computer crimes and promotes ethical hacking education instead.

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Malware analysis and

Antivirus technologies
Mikko Hypponen
Chief Research Officer
F-Secure Corp
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Era
1986 - 2003
2003 2006 -

Enemy
Hobbyists
Criminals
Spies

Chen-Ing Hau, Jeremy Jaynes, Christopher Boyce

Number of virus detections in


F-Secure products

1,100,000
1,000,000
900,000
800,000
700,000
600,000
500,000
400,000
300,000
200,000
100,000
0
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Viruses used to be noisy

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Sources of new malware

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Hi, I am Ronit. I am in the 9th grade.


I struggled a lot in my life, but I'm still
happy bcoz my family is with me.
But now I don't have any friends. All
people are very bad.
I really want to change my life.
Please teach me how to hack credit
cards and shop admins.

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Computer crime is
the fastest
growing segment of
the IT industry
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Istanbul

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Featuring
Mr. Cagatay Evyapan aka "Cha0"
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Featuring
Mr. Dmitry Golubov aka "Script"
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Tariq al-Daour

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Our work would


be much easier if
the enemy would
be stupid
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$$$$ via viruses

Spam
DDoS Extortion
Stealing credit card numbers
Stealing passwords to Paypal + eBay
Stealing passwords to online banks
Stealing passwords to stock brokers
Stealing passwords to Poker sites

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