What Motivates Website Malware Attacks?

The depiction in the media of hackers tends to be that of balaclava-wearing villains who type furiously in a dark basement, motivated by nothing but evil intentions. However, while this may be true in some instances, by and large the determining factors that result in malware attacks are largely motivated not by ideology or malice but by material interests.

In writing this post I couldn’t help but think of the self-parody TV series CSI: Cyber, specifically the episode where the basement-dwelling, greasy-haired, evil hacker hacks a roller coaster ride, killing everyone on board, simply because he is a bad evil guy who wants to do bad evil things to unsuspecting good people.

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