The high profile announcement by the ICA is evidence of a more co-ordinated effort than ever before by the hacking community to execute targeted attacks, said Alan Bentley, vice-president international at security firm Lumension.
“While this is certainly not the first case of malicious code being sold online, with the rise of highly complex attacks like Stuxnet and Zeus the online hacker shops of old seem like child’s play when compared to this new wave of collaborative cyber warfare,” he said.
The ICA announcement makes it clear that cyber criminals are creating mechanisms dedicated at corporate espionage and attacking against real-world infrastructures, such as power stations, said Bentley.
