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Those involved in internet crime effectively use an "open source" system similar to that which is used by programmers, the Register reports.
According to Thomas Holt, a professor of criminal justice at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, online criminals tweak each other's codes and add extra features, exceeding national boundaries in the process.
Groups involved in these illegal activities increasingly seem to be working together, he told delegates at the US Department of Defense's Cyber Crime Conference yesterday.
During his speech, he mentioned that this appears to be a "somewhat different" way of thinking to the traditional hacker.
Mr Holt also said that "it's no longer just a single person distributing malware", but some form of "distribution of labour".
Guidance Software also presented a seminar during the conference, dubbed Large Scale Incident Response Best Practices and Case Study Analysis. The presentation included a malware assessment.
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