McAfee Predicts Facebook, Twitter Will Be Platforms of Choice for Emerging Threats
Today McAfee Labs unveiled its “2010 Threat Predictions Report”. The focus of its message suggests that McAfee believes cybercriminals will target social networking sites and third-party applications in the near future. McCafee also believes these criminals will use more complex Trojans and botnets to build and execute attacks to take advantage of HTML 5 for these emerging threats. McAfee Labs also predicts 2010 will be a good year for law enforcements fight against cybercrime.
Facebook, Twitter, and third-party applications on these sites are rapidly changing the criminal toolkit, giving cybercriminals new technologies to work with and hot spots of activity that can be exploited. Users will become more vulnerable to attacks that blindly distribute rogue apps across their networks, and cybercriminals will take advantage of friends trusting friends to get users to click on links they might otherwise treat cautiously. The use of abbreviated URLs on sites like Twitter make it even easier for cybercriminals to mask and direct users to malicious Web sites. McAfee Labs predicts that cybercriminals will increasingly use these tactics across the most popular social networking sites in 2010.
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