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Exploiting vulnerabilities to infect computers has become a priority for
cyber-crooks
Posted on 19 September 2006.

Over the last few months we have witnessed a notable increase in
exploits of security problems in commonly-used programs that could allow
remote attacks by cyber-crooks. This situation is due to the new malware
dynamic, in which the main objective is financial gain. Internet
criminals are concentrating their efforts on discovering and exploiting
security problems that allow them to harvest as much confidential user
data as possible. This data is then used for online fraud and identity
theft.

http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=4205