This sounds like a very interesting theme for a novel (or novels). Could even make it kinda like a subgenre of cyberpunk or like a modern version of it at leas

This sounds like a very interesting theme for a novel (or novels). Could even make it kinda like a subgenre of cyberpunk or like a modern version of it at least. I mean, I can imagine some interesting plots regarding people trading bugs in an underground market, where the product is something that can be more dangerous than a gun, but it fits in a USB drive. Maybe they can even be based on real stories, just changed a bit to protect identities and such. However I do think you would need to be fairly involved in this world to be able to write something interesting and based on something real. Hopefully someone involved in the security world gets bitten by the writer's bug and writes something some day. I know Brian Krebs has written interesting articles but a book would be very cool.