Kaspersky Predicts Online Threats for 2010
According to the security experts from Kaspersky Labs, in the next year (2010) the form of cyber assaults against users will change from assaults launched through applications and websites to those launched via file-sharing or P2P networks.
The firm observed that attackers were popularly using the services due to their important role in distributing a large number of malicious infections, including for a very famous malware code for OS X.
Besides these, while there emerge new attack techniques, infections by malware would get sharper. Kaspersky forecasts that online attackers would employ rootkits along with other clandestine techniques in increasing instances to beat security vendors' malware detection software.
Kaspersky also says that there are many ways for modern cyber-criminals to make revenue via Internet by utilizing large volumes of Web-traffic generated through botnets. In the current times, it's mainly black-market services, which vie for exploiting botnet traffic...
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