McAfee has unveiled its 2010 Threat Predictions report wherein it has pointed out that cybercriminals will target social networking sites and third-party applications, use more complex Trojans and botnets to build and execute attacks andMcAfee has unveiled its 2010 Threat Predictions report wherein it has pointed out that cybercriminals will target social networking sites and third-party applications, use more complex Trojans and botnets to build and execute attacks and take advantage of HTML 5 to create emerging threats. McAfee Labs also predicts that 2010 will mark a decade in the fight that international law-enforcement agencies have undertaken against cybercrime.
“Over the past decade, we’ve seen a tremendous improvement in the ability to successfully monitor, uncover, and stop cybercrime,” said Jeff Green, Senior Vice- President of McAfee Labs. “We’re now facing emerging threats from the explosive growth of social networking sites, the exploitation of popular applications and more advanced techniques used by cybercriminals, but we’re confident that 2010 will be a successful year for the cybersecurity community.”
As per the report, Facebook, Twitter, and third-party applications on these sites are rapidly changing the criminal toolkit, giving cybercriminals new technologies to work with and hot spots of activity that can be exploited. Users will become more vulnerable to attacks that blindly distribute rogue apps across their networks, and cybercriminals will get users to click on malicious links that would eventually lead them onto trouble. It also warns that banking Trojans, having demonstrated new tactics in 2009 will become even more sophisticated in 2010 and easily get around current protections used by banks.
But McAfee also perceives a brighter prospect in this regard by stating that the year 2010 will be a good year for law enforcement’s fight against cybercrime. It has seen significant progress in the universal effort to identify, track, and combat cybercrime by governments worldwide. McAfee believes that in 2010 we’ll see many more successes in the pursuit of cybercriminals.
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