Cybercrime Is Low-Risk and Easy
The second key factor in the rise of cybercrime as a business is that success
comes with a minimum of risk. The psychological aspect of crime provides
some measure of deterrence in the real world. In the virtual world, criminals
never see their individual victims or the corporations they choose to attack. It is
much easier to rob the rich or to rob someone you can't see, touch or feel.
Coupled with the cloak of anonymity is the plethora of online resources
available, hawking everything from vulnerabilities, to Trojans for building
botnets, to complete rent-a-botnet solutions. (See Figures 2 and 3.) The level of
technical expertise required to run a cybercrime business continues to decrease
in similar proportion to the increase in the number of Internet-savvy people.
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