The creation of computer viruses has changed over the years. It has gone from being scientific research and a hobby to becoming a multi-million dollar industry full of legally dead people who create and deploy intrusive software from undisclosed locations around the world. Why don't we hear about antivirus software anymore? Perhaps because malicious actors now focus primarily on important targets, such as sensitive industries where the game is different.
The image attached to this post is very revealing: at the top are examples of the early 90s, 00s generation of computer virus creators: weird kids, some eccentric scientists; ten years later, at the bottom of the image, we have completely new archetypes: people working for security companies, shady individuals with strong ties with the criminal world, terrorists using intrusive software to finance operations.
If we had this evolution in ten years, a decade ago, imagine what kind of people are creating malicious payloads today.
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