Malware Businesses Blending the Legitimate and the Illegitimate

Whenever someone wants to invoke a hacker for any purpose, we usually get some (stock photography) image of a lone, hooded malware author bent over a dark keyboard. Movies, too, perpetuate the idea of some socially maladjusted loner wreaking havoc single-handedly from his (or her) laptop, with the plot usually culminating in the arrest of the individual—and there the mayhem ends, because the single genius is now in solitary.