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
• The bad guys still want your money, identity and/or resources
• Cyber criminals in the cloud
• Highly transient web threats
• Exploitation of major events, news and gossip
• Web two-point-uh-oh
• Emerging nations go online with poor security
• Global economic crisis impacts security
• Business still too complacent
• More people will buy complete protection

Sadly, the security threats in 2010 are likely to be nastier, more targeted and more frequent, with malware and cyber-crime being almost exclusively driven by organised crime and motivated by money.