full-disclosure - Re: Absolute Sownage (A concise history of recent Sony hacks)

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Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 11:06:33 -0600 (MDT)
From: Bruce Ediger <bediger@...atigery.com>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Absolute Sownage (A concise history of recent
 Sony hacks)

On Sat, 11 Jun 2011, Nick FitzGerald wrote:

> Nowadays the big, noisy, obvious, "own the net" type "outbreak" of
> yesteryear is not the model of choice for your typical cyber-thug (you
> know, those running virtually all malware these days)..
>
> In fact, _avoiding_ exactly that is pretty much top of their list of
> desiderata.

How do we know this?

I mean, it seems kind of circular to say "We haven't seen another Code
Red II for a while, so the malware writers are doing other things."  Of
course they are off doing other things: we haven't seen another Code Red
II in years.

What other evidence exists?

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