Seriously, I have suspected anti-viral and anti-spy software companies as the source of these attacks.
Yes, there are documented cases of young teens creating software, but those cases are rather rare.
Like I said before, I have been working with computers for well over 30 years now. My second micro-computer was Altair 8800.
Byte magazine once had a competition to write as self-replicating program. The winner was the following BASIC source code:
1) LIST
A few months later, a new company formed and was selling anti-viral software. Suddenly, withing six months, everyone was being infected with viral software.
Are you catching the drift yet?
My wife uses anti-viral software. Every person I work with uses anti-viral software on their computers.
They have all been infected and have experienced some major computer problems. Often, they have been forced to re-format their hard drives and install all of their software from scratch.
For 30 years now, I have refused to ever use anti-viral software. Amazingly, my computer never seems to suffer these problems. Not once in over 30 years!
Think about it.....
Actually, just last week, every computer at my company was no longer able to access the internet. They could access a website, but withing 30 seconds, Microsoft Internet Explorer would crash.
My computer never had this problem, so I had to help everyone else recover.
Think about it....
For 30 years now, I have refused to use any anti-viral software and have never experienced an attack.