Online crime gangs embrace open source ethos / The Register, 17 January 2008
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/17/globalization_of_crimeware/
Dan Goodin
"Malware gets globalized
Add the malware bazaar to the list of marketplaces being radically reshaped by the forces of globalization.
That's the conclusion of Thomas Holt, a professor of criminal justice at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, who says the marketplace for rootkits, Trojans and other software nasties increasingly transcends national boundaries. In many respects, malware creation mimics open source communities, in which legions of programmers spanning the globe tweak one another's code to add new features and fix bugs."