This year has seen a dramatic spike in volumes of spam, phishing, botnet activity and malware, and 2010 will be no different says security vendors AVG.
According to Llyod Borrett, marketing manager for AVG (AU/NZ), in 2010 the threat environment will look pretty much the same as 2009, but will have “more of everything and be even more transient agile and organised.”
So what else will 2010 hold? Borrett provides the following predictions:
- There will be more diverse, automatically generated malware.
- More people will buy complete protection.
- The bad guys will still want your money, identity and/or resources.
- Cyber criminals will be in the cloud.
- Web threats will be highly transient.
- There will be a big exploitation of major events, news and gossip.
- “Web two-point-uh-oh”.
- Emerging nations will go online with poor security.
- The global economic crisis will continue to impact security.
- Business will still be too complacent.
- It will get worse before it gets better.
“Sadly, the security threats in 2010 are likely to be nastier than ever, more targeted and more frequent. With malware and cyber crime now being almost exclusively driven by organised crime running on a business model, changes are largely driven by criminal cost/benefit analysis of opportunities and risks,” says Borrett.
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