"Criminal Businesses Adopt Corporate Behavior as They Grow"

According to Trend Micro, as cybercriminal groups grow, they adopt corporate-like behavior, which presents its own set of challenges and costs. The cybercriminal world is rapidly professionalizing, with groups imitating legitimate businesses that are growing in complexity and revenue. However, larger cybercrime groups can be more difficult to manage and contain more 'office politics,' underachievers, and trust issues. Trend Micro's report emphasizes to investigators the significance of understanding the size of the such groups with which they are dealing. According to the report, a typical large cybercriminal group allocates 80 percent of its operating expenses to wages, while small groups allocate 78 percent. Infrastructure such as servers, routers, Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), virtual machines, and software are also major expenses. This article continues to discuss key findings from Trend Micro's analysis of three types of cybercriminal groups. 

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