Trojan devs give up after seeing hard work ripped off, copied between crooks
BSides LV Life’s tough as a malware developer. If the cops or Feds don't collar you, your fellow scumbags will screw you over – or perhaps both will happen.
In a presentation at the Bsides Las Vegas hacking conference today, Winnona DeSombre, an analyst at threat-intelligence biz Recorded Future, detailed a year-long probe into dark and public web forums and chat rooms where malware writers hang out. What she saw, during the course of the investigation that ended May 2019, was a constant fight between people who write malware and those who crack it and sell it on themselves or just give it away.
Software nasties are pirated by crooks and redistributed just like legit applications, in other words. Malw ..
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