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| | TechWeb | Hacker Motives | New Wave Hackers Chase Bucks, Not Bragging Rights |
 | | Malicious code cases surged in October by over 20 percent, lead by a resurgence in Bagle and MyDoom and a continued push by money-hungry hackers who are flooding the Internet with Trojans designed to steal dough, not gain notoriety, said a security firm report released this week. |
 | | Trend Micro, which is headquartered in Tokyo and known for its PC-cillin anti-virus line, noted that even though October was a relatively quiet month in major outbreaks, it saw a 22 percent jump in new malicious code detected compared to September. |
 | | It's proof, said Hartmann, that hackers are assembling ever bigger bot networks that they can then turn into profit-making machines. |
| www.techweb.com /wire/security/52200192 (1050 words) |
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