This document discusses computer viruses and criminal internet businesses. It provides statistics on the number of known malicious software programs and web attacks over time. The history of some notorious computer viruses and their impacts are described. Statistics are presented on the top countries originating malicious servers and those most protected from infections. The document also examines trends in mobile phone threats doubling and malware targeting industrial control systems. It explores how botnets are used in criminal internet businesses for spam delivery, DDoS attacks, cyber racketeering and data theft. The document concludes with a forecast on the future split of cybercrime into business assaults and control systems attacks.

1. Computer Viruses
and Criminal Internet Business
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2. Today the number of known malicious software programs
amounts to 6,5 million.
Over the first quarter of 2011 there have been 254 million
web-attacks, which stands for 33 attacks per minute.
Just in June 2011 the Kaspersky Lab solutions enabled to detect
and neutralize 220 million of malicious software programs
on users’ computers.
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3. History and Facts
Viruses of Today
Criminal Internet Business
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4. History and Facts
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5. The world’s economic damage caused by the most harmful
viruses being measured in millions of dollars
Love Bug 8.75
Code Red 2.62
SirCam 1.15
The assaults which occurred after the
Melissa 1.1 May 2000 Love Bug attack have caused
less damage due to the subsequent
clearing system automation
Nimda 0,63
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6. The notorious sentenced authors of viruses
Robert Morris
The author of the first in history net worm Morris Worm
and the first ever sentenced for computer fraud.
He was sentenced to 400 hours of community labor and fined to 10 400 dollars.
David Smith
The author of Melissa virus.
He was convicted for 10 years in prison (served only 1,5 years sentence)
and fined to 5 000 dollars for causing damage that amounted to 80 million dollars.
Swen Yashan
The author of several computer viruses, namely Sasser and NetSky.
Microsoft offered a reward of 250 000 dollars for the information about the hacker.
He was sentenced for 1 year 9 months in prison.
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7. Viruses of Today
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8. Russia is second in the world in terms
of the number of servers with malicious resources
USA
28%
Russia
17%
Other 20%
12%
5% Netherlands
5%
Great Britain 5% 8%
Germany China
Ukraine
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9. The most safe countries
in terms of the risk of being infected
The number
Position Country
of Infected Computers
1 Japan 6,3 %
2 Germany 9,2 %
3 Switzerland 9,6 %
4 Luxembourg 10,2 %
5 Denmark 11,1 %
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10. In 2011 mobile phones threats
are assumed to double
515
The number of new harmful programs
for mobile platforms by years
291 270
169 176
110
64
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
1st Qtr
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11. Another trend – malicious software designed
for hacking industrial control systems
3900—5200
contaminations
< 3900 5200—6500
contaminations contaminations
* The Stuxnet worm, being almost harmless
towards common users’ computers,
wrecks enriched uranium centrifuges
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12. Criminal Internet Business
Nowadays botnets or Zombie-nets
are one of the major sources
of illegal earnings in the Internet
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13. Botnets expose
the modern versatile criminal business
Networking: Big botnets comprise
Spam delivery millions of computers:
BredoLab 30 000 000
DDoS attacks
Mariposa 12 000 000
Cyber racketeering
Data stealing Conficker 10 500 000
Fishing TDL4 4 500 000
Selling and renting Zeus 3 600 000
of a botnet (in USA only)
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14. As soon as a hacker receives money from a client he starts
sending spam via the botnet
Zombie*
Client
$$$
Hacker Bot
* A computer that has been compromised by a cracker, computer virus or trojan horse
and can be used to perform malicious tasks of one sort or another under remote direction.
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15. Forecast:
cybercrime in 2020 will get split in two groups
Cybercrime
Business assaults Control systems attacks
Commercial espionage Cracks and stealing of such systems
Data stealing Services usage
Defamation Information warping
About a person About an activity
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16. Feel concern and provide
your information security!
Apply to the modern defense solutions
of the Internet Security class
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