The year of organised cybercrime

It looks like we're in for a few days of "2005 in review" (heck even we're doing it). The BBC looks at how criminals have been using much more targeted viruses this year to finance their "operations".

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Smaller groups are being targeted because many of the groups sending out viruses are criminals keen to profit from the machines they compromise.

Mr Hogan from Symantec said there was only circumstantial evidence in 2004 that criminals were getting involved in viruses, spam and phishing.

But in terms of this year, he said: "With customers and others we have seen clear evidence that this is being done for money."

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[BBC News]