McAfee, a leading dedicated security technology company, on Wednesday predicted its top ten security threats for the year 2007 from McAfee(R) Avert(R) Labs. In accordance with data of McAfee Avert Labs, with over 217,000 many of identified threats and more than thousands so far unidentified, it is understandable that malware is potentially being launched by expert and organized Internet criminals.
Given below are the followings top ten lists of McAfee Avert Labs:
(1) Vulnerabilities will continue to cause concern fueled by the underground market for vulnerabilities.
(2) The number of rootkits on 32-bit platforms will increase, but protection and remediation capabilities will increase as well.
(3) Parasitic malware, or viruses that modify existing files on a disk, will make a comeback.
(4) The use of bots, computer programs that perform automated tasks, will increase as a tool favored by hackers.
(5) Identity theft and data loss will continue to be a public issue -at the root of these crimes is often computer theft, loss of back-ups and compromised information systems.
(6) Adware will go mainstream following the increase in commercial Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUPs).
(7) Mobile phone attacks will become more prevalent as mobile devices become “smarter” and more connected.
(8) The popularity of video sharing on the Web makes it inevitable that hackers will target MPEG files as a means to distribute malicious code.
(9) The volume of spam, particularly bandwidth-eating image spam, will continue to increase.
(10) The number of password-stealing Web sites will increase using fake sign-in pages for popular online services such as eBay.
