Evolution of Malcode Criminals

The guys who write viruses and malware aren’t the mischief makers or yore.  The bad guys have figured out that the best way to get their malware removed from an infected system is to make the malware be noisy- send out tons of spam, flood the network with packets, and make the host almost unusable for its owner.  Within short order, the host is repaired, or flattened and reloaded.  Now the bad guys are being quiet, and infections are on the rise and more and more criminals are making money from their malware.  Mikko Hyponen from F-Secure has this outstanding video explaining how malware has evolved from trojan horse attachments in email to drive-by downloads that finance international terror.