How Attack Toolkits Impact the Cyber-Underground  By Brian
Prince  |  Posted 2011-01-18  A new report (PDF) from Symantec
highlights just how much the spread of attack toolkits has
lowered the barrier to entry for cyber-criminals.  The kits have
become fixtures on the digital shelves of the Internet's black
market, and are now used in the majority of Web
attacks. According to the report, the most prevalent toolkits
detected on malicious Websites between July 1, 2009, and June
30, 2010, were MPack (48 percent), NeoSploit (31 percent) and
Zeus (19 percent).  "It helps to draw a parallel between attack
toolkits and HTML editing programs," Marc Fossi, executive
editor of the report and manager of research and development for
Symantec Security Response, told eWEEK. "In the beginning, to
design an HTML Web page you had to hand code the HTML in a basic
text editor. Then WYSIWYG editors came along that allowed you to
drag and drop elements but you still needed to know some HTML to
tweak the code. Now, however, there