Microsoft s idea that the fight against malware could be funded by an Internet tax is horrible, an analyst said. Microsoft s idea is horrible as other experts weighed in on a recent comment by the company s security chief. Researchers have spotted notable code overlap between the Sunburst backdoor and a known Turla weapon. Researchers at Recorded Future report a rise in cracked Cobalt Strike and other open-source adversarial tools with easy-to-use interfaces.
Source: https://threatpost.com/rsa-2010-experts-reject-taxing-hacks-malware-030510/73638/