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Nor do cyber crooks need to be super-geeks any more; off-the-shelf criminal software is now widely available on the dark web, according to Rajab.
Mr Oerting said the cyber crooks are winning the 'arms race' raging between them and cyber security companies: "Right now it is completely risk-free and it is very attractive to be a cyber criminal.
"It has become the cyber crooks' attack of choice," he said.
Despite the success, the spread of botnets looks set to continue, as cyber crooks grow increasingly sophisticated in their ability to infect machines.
Most hackers and cyber crooks don't make a lot.
Retail data was the number one target of cyber crooks in 2014.
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But too bad for cyber crook Albert Gonzalez, because despite his technical wizardry, he wasn't bright enough to look unsuspicious one late night when he decided to rip off scads of bank accounts by using fraudulent debit cards.
What China's cyber-crooks are focused on plain and simple is theft.
Rising numbers of online attacks are stoking a debate about how best to combat cyber-crooks.
As is the case with many Facebook scams, victims end up as marketers for cyber-crooks.
That is a huge commercial opportunity, but it will also encourage cyber-crooks to target businesses even more vigorously.
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