Workshop on the Economics of Information Security at Dartmouth College. Experts discussed the drivers of the underground cybercrime economy and how the security story has changed in the media in recent years. 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. Researchers also discussed the rise in the use of the tools that can be used by hackers.
Source: https://threatpost.com/weis-2008-economics-cybercrime-031809/72401/