Paul Ferguson is a senior threat researcher for TrendMicro. He first started fighting computer malware back in 1987. He says the sheer volume of malware is incredible. The real challenges is collecting the data from as many points as you can, putting together facts in such a way that law enforcement sees them immediately as usable evidence. In Russia and Eastern Europe, it’s run by a few large groups, even if they are pretending to be small groups, he says. The better job we can do collecting and normalizing data up front, the easier it is to help law enforcement to get and arrest criminals.”]
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