Cybercrooks and Malware Pushers Thriving on New-Found Creativity and Sophisticated Threats

Just as entrepreneurs seek the discover of 'the next big thing' in the tech world, cybercrooks and hackers look to new-found creativity and the development of sophisticated threats to sway the way in which potentially victims of their scams think.

During the first 10 years of a commercialized Internet, it is hard to come to the realization that the hacker and cybercrime community to thrive with advanced and persistent threats. These threats are causing normality to reconsider many steps in every-day existence or business as usual.

Malware has leveraged technology in a way we never really considered 5 to 10 years ago. Today, malware threats armed with a sophisticated payload armed with the ability to cause massive destruction among victimized computer users. Not only have these new threats grown in strength, but they have prompted us to spend more time understanding the objectives of what appears to be misguided attacks.

New indicators of attacks to come are such an important component for those who wish to combat new malware threats. Though, indicators of attacks must be combined with other information to clearly identify attacks to come due to the new complexity and sophistication of malware threats.

Below is a video discussing today's sophisticated threats and how we must think like the attacker in our approach to security. Ultimately, we must adhere to these ideas to overcome the drawn out battles that new malware brings to the forefront of the computer and internet world we live in today.