The Insider's Guide to Next-Generation BPM
By Jeff Debrosse, Research Director, ESET , 12/11/2009
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The current threatscape, as with any landscape, can be viewed as endless vistas of changing complexities and unfathomable permutations of technologies, network topologies, risk scenarios and user requirements. It is the white noise of this dizzying array of technologies, built upon an operating system monoculture, which makes for a healthy breeding ground for cybercrime.
Essentially, cybercriminals are the ones who define the threatscape and can be thought of as having the ultimate, but illegal, business plan. Currently there are several negative elements that make up today's threatscape and in this article I will focus on a few key pieces: malware, botnets, phishing and the breach of data.
One of the main components of today's threatscape puzzle is malware. The term malware is short for "malicious software," and over the last few years there has been a shift in the malware dynamic. The shift is a result of the change in malware author's motivation. While in past malware authors have been driven by things like the possibility of fame and spite, however in today's climate their motivation is almost always financial.
Today, one of the most popular types of malware are botnets. A botnet, also known as drones or zombies, is a network of infected computers that is under the management of a central controller or bot herder through the use of command and control servers.
The goal of a botnet is to use the infected computers for criminal activities such as generating spam or attacking a specific target (company, country, network, etc.). Regardless of the crime committed with the botnet, it can be used by the owner(s) for political purposes, to generate revenue and simply wreak mayhem.
The most noticeable effect of a botnet may be a decrease in computer performance. A botnet may be sending thousands of spam emails from an infected computer and there is no simple way to know that email is being sent from the computer. An infected computer can also be used to attack other computer. While a slow computer can be frustrating for an individual, for a business, it means reduced productivity.
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