Companies need to step it up to keep ahead of the criminal mind.

Enterprises and consumers each suffer from different types of malware threats, but both were hit hard by rogue antivirus attacks last year, according to new data released by Microsoft today…

“We’re seeing that the criminals are more professional and organized,” Thomlinson says. “[It's] not the guy in his garage doing this in his spare time. This is really about criminals in shirts and ties, not with tattoos.

“Criminals are becoming more specialized in different aspects of cybercrime, and then coordinating with other criminals with other specialties, he says. “Threats are being packaged together and sold as commodities and kits,” he says. “It struck us as we looked at botnets that this is an early version of cloud computing: There is computing available for whatever use they have in mind, and they are taking advantage of a large number of machines to do that. This is the ‘black cloud’ of computing.”

via Microsoft: Enterprises Hit Hardest By Worms; Consumers By Trojans And Adware – DarkReading.