Brazil is one of the biggest sources of malware on the planet

Interesting that the language of choice is Delphi. Presumably because it is a teaching language and easy to pickup quickly.

this isn't surprising at all -- latin america boxes are extremely cheap to buy -- the only ones that are cheaper are asian ones<p>BUT, the reason people still buy them (the computers) is because if you are trying to sell something (rather than just DDOS someone) it is easier to convert someone from say Brazil rather than China through say a dating offer to match.com from a popup

This isn't surprising. I've always seen br up there with ru in terms of hacker comminity activity.<p>I noticed the two articles are set to be translated from Spanish. I have another interesting piece of info about Brazil: the language is Portugeuse and that is what those articles are written in. Note it looks a lot more like French than Spanish does.