Cybercrime: 2012 Looking Bad

Bleah.  When conscience diminishes, the need for cops increases.  Excerpts:

...The use of malware and worms is continuing unabated. While they remain common, little innovation has made it into the mass criminal market — the truly unique manifestations are only isolated creations of genius rogue programmers. But ... the last major threat of 2012 is cyberwarfare.
Anonymous has successfully transformed from their humble prankster beginnings at 4chan into an international movement. Other organizations such as LulzSec — and a host of others — are successfully coming up with cutting-edge prank attacks on high-profile targets. Non-state actors such as Anonymous will increasingly see their methods used by nation-states and sympathetic patriots. Ongoing saber rattling between Britain and Argentina, friction between Russia and neighboring ex-Soviet states, war clouds over Israel and Iran, and the migration of foreign volunteers to Syria will all contribute to fertile grounds for cyberwarfare. The question now isn't if we journalists are going to be writing about it — it's when.