{"id":2128,"date":"2006-04-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/04\/27\/the-evolution-of-spyware-is-outpacing-that-of-viruses-with-some-software-resetting-itself-hourly-to\/"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:40:44","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T11:40:44","slug":"the-evolution-of-spyware-is-outpacing-that-of-viruses-with-some-software-resetting-itself-hourly-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/04\/27\/the-evolution-of-spyware-is-outpacing-that-of-viruses-with-some-software-resetting-itself-hourly-to\/","title":{"rendered":"The evolution of spyware is outpacing that of viruses, with some software resetting itself hourly to"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The evolution of spyware is outpacing that of viruses, with some software resetting itself hourly to evade detection, security experts warned today at Infosec Europe.  Security firm Webroot recorded a dramatic rise in spyware in the past 12 months, almost all of it aimed at harvesting financial data that could be used by third parties.  &#8220;Voice is definitely the next attack vector.  But this time the malware writers won&#8217;t use it for financial gain but for stealing intellectual property, &#8221; said Gerhard Eschelbeck, chief technology officer at Webroot and founder of vulnerability testing firm Qualys.  Eschelbeck added that his company had seen a 40 per cent rise in the amount of spyware in circulation over the past three months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Build your own spyware&#8217; kits are already commonplace on the internet in publicly available forums, leading to fears that &#8216;script kiddies&#8217;, technically unsophisticated users, could develop and distribute their own malware.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.vnunet.com\/vnunet\/news\/2154824\/spyware-evolving-faster-viruses<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4615,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128\/revisions\/4615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}