Hacking: The five trends in 2013

Trend 1: Government malware goes commercial
Technologies that were previously mainly used in government-supported attacks are now being commercialized. For example, the features of the 'Flame' virus, which was recently referred to as a super virus, can already be purchased commercially in 2013 and assembled into new threats using a modular principle. The only difference between "normal" malware that hackers can buy in forums and truly advanced malware is the increasingly professional attack vector.