Demand for malware creation is three times greater than supply, according to research by Positive Technologies into more than 10,000 hack-for-hire and malware-related postings on Dark Web markets. Its analysis included 25 sites on the Dark Web in Russian and English, with a total registered user base of about three million people. The leading type of malware available was cryptocurrency miners (20%), followed by hacking utilities (19%), botnet malware (14%), remote access Trojans (RATs) (12%), and ransomware (12%). Most of the hacker-for-hire requests involve finding site vulnerabilities (36%) and obtaining email passwords (32%), while the most commonly offered services are hacking social network accounts (33%) and email (33%). The proliferation of malware and services on the Dark Web means that cyber criminals no longer require deep technical knowledge and that any type of attack is feasible given sufficient funding. And with multiple threat actors potentially using the same malware, attribution of future attacks is likely to become more complicated. Computer Weekly.