Chapter 8Malware

image Malware is big business. Not only are there hundreds of millions of malware families and variants in the world and an unknown number of programmers developing that malware, there are also at least dozens of companies developing anti-malware solutions. The developers who are working on writing malware are getting paid to write the software, anticipate selling off the malware, or expect to make money from the malware operations. Figure 8.1 shows the number of new malware samples that have been identified by ...

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