Security Threats 2010

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AVG Predicts Internet Security Threats for 2010:

AVG Predicts Internet Security Threats for 2010:

The year gone by has seen a significant rise in the incidence of spam, phishing, botnet activity, and malware. Each year cyber-criminals who have largely succeeded in duping the unsuspecting user, are investing in sophisticated and automated ways to run their operations. It can be safely predicted that in 2010 the threat environment will witness higher volumes of web-threats and be even more transient, agile and organised! Internet security threats that AVG expects to have significant impact on users in 2010 are as follows:
 
 More diverse, automatically generated malware: Cyber-criminals can now automatically create hundreds of thousands of unique pieces of malware a day, much of which has no unique signature and can bypass old-fashioned, signature-based virus detection software.
 
 The bad guys still want your money, identity and/or resources: In the coming year, cyber-criminals will, with increased

sophistication, continue to make money via social engineering and phishing scams, trick users into providing, or steal personal details.
 
 Cyber criminals in the cloud: To keep ahead of the computer security industry's efforts to thwart their activities, the cyber-criminals are now using in the cloud technologies in far more sophisticated and effective ways than most legitimate businesses.
 
 Highly transient web threats: In 2010, cyber criminals will continue to improve the speed with which they are able to move their campaigns from domain to domain, server to server. In early 2009, AVG researchers reported that 60% of these poisoned web threats were active for less than a day and 75% for less than 30 days.
 
  Exploitation of major events, news and gossip: Cyber-criminals exploit latest trends and topics that are gaining popularity on the internet by hijacking search results into clicks on links to their malicious web pages. Expect to see