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German-Chinese research into commercial cybercrime

Posted by William Heath in Malware, fraud at December 6th, 2007

BoingBoing points to a piece on the Chinese malware economy:

The researchers set up virtual PCs running Internet Explorer, then visited nearly 15,000 Chinese websites, deliberately infecting their virtual systems with whatever crapware happened to be running on the system. Then they carefully analyzed the infections as they unfurled and encrappified the virtual instances of Windows, and used the results to reverse-engineer the way that the malware economy runs.

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