Friday, October 13, 2006

Cyber crime gangs are learning to work together / ZDNet, 13 Oct 2006

http://blogs.zdnet.com/threatchaos/index.php?p=420
Richard Stiennon
According to the just released Exploit Prevalence Survey for the month of September, web based exploits against the IE VML flaw are the most widely distributed exploit ever. The report is put together by Exploit Prevention Labs (XPL). They use a distributed network of computers to scan the web for sites that have malicious intent. In the interview I did this morning with Roger Thompson, the Founder of XPL, he calls it a “ hunter pot network” (as opposed to honey pot)."