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Malware also the handiwork of children, security firm finds |
February 09, 2013
Security firm AVG thinks it has spotted a disturbing new threat in its latest threat report - children with enough programming skills to code and distribute their own malware.
The company said it had recently reverse-engineered one piece of malware that turned out to be the handiwork of an 11 year-old Canadian boy intent on stealing passwords used to access games such as Team Fortress.
Although still exceptions to the rule, AVG is convinced this type of child coder is a real phenomenon, able to wield simple programming languages such as C# (C Sharp) and Visual Basic to carry out mostly attacks aimed at stealing game logins for major platforms such as Steam or manipulating individual games.
Others just want to steal logins in order to exact revenge through an enemy's Facebook account.
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Link: http://news.techworld.com/security/3425185/avg-finds-11-year-old-creating-malware-steal-game-passwords/
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