Cybercrime today is a full-fledged business with executives, middle managers and workers who depend on a variety of service providers to keep the illicit operations humming. Supporting these criminal enterprises is a shadow underground of chat rooms, Web portals and marketplaces for finding and hiring people and buying or leasing malware, exploit code and botnet-building tools. “This has led to an explosion in monthly malware volumes, which are three times greater than four years ago,” Fortinet says. The organizational structures of these illicit businesses are eerily close of legitimate companies.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2132701/cybercriminals-are-just-businessmen-at-heart.html