How Do They Make All That Malware?

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Anti-virus vendors are getting more than 50,000 submissions of new malware per day now. How can the malware business be so productive? It turns out the numbers aren't really as big as all that.

I was talking to a head research guy at an anti-virus company recently, and he said that the big anti-virus firms are all getting about 50,000 new malware submissions every day. 50K! How do they, the malware authors, do it? And how is it that the AV companies actually get the malware?

Welcome to the malware generation business model. So you want to be a malware star? Well listen now to what I say. Unfortunately, I will be somewhat vague, but the fact is that anyone who's technically competent and has the will to do so can find the missing pieces of the puzzle I'll lay out.
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