[Osiris]

Hackers Showing Patience and Restraint?

According to Symantec's forthcoming report on the underground economy, some criminals are showing restraint and more patience when they steal from large companies. Fortunately, I don’t think the courts will give these guys the same consideration when they catch them and put them in jail.

Instead of swiping all the customer data they can get their hands on, a small subset of hackers have concerned themselves with stealing only a very specific thing from the vendors they breach — they want access to the compromised companies' payment-processing systems, and nothing else, according to the "Symantec Report on the Underground Economy," slated for release Monday.