computer viruses and criminal internet business

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Computer Virusesand Criminal Internet Business

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Today the number of known malicious software programs

amounts to 6,5 million.

Over the first quarter of 2011 there have been 254 million

web-attacks, which stands for 33 attacks per minute.

Just in June 2011 the Kaspersky Lab solutions enabled to detect

and neutralize 220 million of malicious software programs

on users’ computers.

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History and Facts1

Viruses of Today

Criminal Internet Business

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History and Facts

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The world’s economic damage caused by the most harmful viruses being measured in millions of dollars

Love Bug

Code Red

SirCam

Melissa

Nimda

8.75

2.62

1.15

1.10

0,63

The assaults which occurred after the May 2000 Love Bug attack have caused less damage due to the subsequent clearing system automation

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The author of the first in history net worm Morris Wormand the first ever sentenced for computer fraud.

He was sentenced to 400 hours of community labor and fined to 10 400 dollars.

The notorious sentenced authors of viruses

Robert Morris

The author of Melissa virus.

He was convicted for 10 years in prison (served only 1,5 years sentence)and fined to 5 000 dollars for causing damage that amounted to 80 million dollars.

David Smith

The author of several computer viruses, namely Sasser and NetSky.Microsoft offered a reward of 250 000 dollars for the information about the hacker.

He was sentenced for 1 year 9 months in prison.

Swen Yashan

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Viruses of Today

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Russia is second in the world in termsof the number of servers with malicious resources

28%

17%

12%

8%5%5%5%

20%

USA

Russia

Ukraine

Other

Netherlands

ChinaGermany

Great Britain

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The most safe countriesin terms of the risk of being infected

Position CountryThe numberof Infected Computers

1 Japan 6,3 %

2 Germany 9,2 %

3 Switzerland 9,6 %

4 Luxembourg 10,2 %

5 Denmark 11,1 %

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In 2011 mobile phones threatsare assumed to double

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 20111st Qtr

110169

64

176

291

515

270

The number of new harmful programsfor mobile platforms by years

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Another trend – malicious software designedfor hacking industrial control systems

5200—6500contaminations

3900—5200 contaminations

< 3900contaminations

* The Stuxnet worm, being almost harmlesstowards common users’ computers,wrecks enriched uranium centrifuges

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Nowadays botnets or Zombie-netsare one of the major sourcesof illegal earnings in the Internet

Criminal Internet Business

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Botnets exposethe modern versatile criminal business

Networking:

Spam delivery

DDoS attacks

Cyber racketeering

Data stealing

Fishing

Selling and rentingof a botnet

Big botnets comprisemillions of computers:

BredoLab 30 000 000

Mariposa 12 000 000

Conficker 10 500 000

TDL4 4 500 000

Zeus 3 600 000(in USA only)

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As soon as a hacker receives money from a client he starts sending spam via the botnet

Hacker

Client

$$$

Bot

Zombie*

* A computer that has been compromised by a cracker, computer virus or trojan horse and can be used to perform malicious tasks of one sort or another under remote direction.

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About a person About an activity

Forecast:cybercrime in 2020 will get split in two groups

Cybercrime

Business assaults Control systems attacks

Commercial espionage

Data stealing

Cracks and stealing of such systems

Services usage

Defamation Information warping

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