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Within the confines of the underground digital economy, tens of thousands of criminals conduct business among themselves in excess of $100 billion. Bigger than the global drug trade, this shadowy bazaar offers computer-controlling botnets for rent, malware such as trojans, viruses and spyware for sale, and freshly stolen consumer identities for a fraction of their owners’ full credit lines. It’s also a highly specialized marketplace, having adopted best practices similar to those of the public marketplace, such as division of labor, escrow accounts and even product guarantees. What’s more, many of the malicious vendors here draw feedback from countermeasures taken against them, such as digital security signature updates. These criminals use that information to update their own offerings, sometimes as frequently as every 45 seconds. With such complex activity, you can see that this marketplace is equipped to ensure perversely high-quality tools to steal victims’ identities, to reduce the cost of doing business, and to innovate with regularity. In this brief, easy-to-understand whitepaper, you’ll learn more about how this criminal marketplace works. You’ll understand the nature and incentives of the people working against you and your business. And you’ll understand just how MessageLabs unique proprietary technology helps to keep your information safe, by disrupting criminal online activity without providing a valuable feedback flow to the cybercriminals. Online thieves operate in the shadows, so why shouldn’t the good guys have some secrets of their own?
Telemarketer Talking Points (3)
1) There is a shadow marketplace for digital criminals that larger than the global drug trade.
2) This marketplace exploits some of the latest countermeasures in a way that is both efficient and innovative.
3) MessageLabs unique proprietary technology disrupts this activity and protects your business in a way that avoids disclosing information to this same criminal marketplace.
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