Sunday, December 20, 2009

Lavasoft Malware Labs Releases 2010 Internet Security Trends

Lavasoft analysts ahead the top 5 trends that will boss the aegis mural this advancing year: attacks on Windows 7, appliance vulnerability exploits, rogue aegis products, compromising non-Windows platforms, and adaptable malware. "Comparing the third division of 2009 to the aforementioned time endure year, we’ve apparent a 477 percent access in the aggregate of malware added to Ad-Aware’s blackmail database."

Gothenburg, Sweden -- Well-known anti-spyware avant-garde Lavasoft today appear its account of aegis predictions for 2010, anticipating the top threats that Internet users should be acquainted of this advancing year as cyber abyss acclimate their tactics, award new means to con humans while they use the Internet.

“Online abyss accept been active in 2009. Comparing the third division of 2009 to the aforementioned time endure year, we’ve apparent a 477 percent access in the aggregate of malware added to Ad-Aware’s blackmail database,” says Andrew Browne, arch of Malware Labs at Lavasoft.

Expectations for 2010 cover not alone an access in awful Internet attacks, but the online attackers will bolster their approach application new twists on acceptable methods – as able-bodied as absorption on anew arising platforms – according to Lavasoft Malware Labs.

“We apprehend that commonly acknowledged and advantageous modes of advance on PCs, such as rogue threats and base appliance vulnerabilities for programs humans use on a circadian basis, will see added attacks application added attenuate and adult methods. At the aforementioned time, arising operating systems and accepted platforms, like smartphones, will acceptable allure accretion attacks – the added accepted the belvedere becomes, the greater the allurement to attack,” Browne says.

Lavasoft Malware Labs’ analysts ahead that the afterward 5 blackmail trends will boss the aegis mural in 2010:

1. Malware attacks on Windows 7. With the absolution of their latest operating system, Microsoft aims to alter Windows XP as the operating arrangement of choice. As users move to Windows 7, malware authors will about-face their absorption to acquisition means to accomplishment the new operating arrangement with targeted attacks.

2. Application vulnerability exploits. Should Windows 7 prove to be added defended – in added words, added difficult for malware authors to accomplishment – base appliance vulnerabilities, such as web browser vulnerabilities, will be the next best thing. To admixture this, while users accept amorphous to accept the accent of applying operating arrangement patches, they are beneath acquainted of the charge to administer aegis updates to applications; patches acclimation appliance vulnerabilities are about apathetic to appear, and it’s not consistently aboveboard to the user that an amend is accessible and that action needs to be taken – authoritative it an easier malware target.

3. Scareware and rogue (fake) aegis products. Rogue aegis software, aswell accepted as scareware, crop the anatomy of legitimate-looking anti-virus, anti-spyware and anti-malware articles and appear to be amiable from a aegis perspective; in reality, they accommodate little or no protection, accomplish ambiguous alerts, or attack to allurement users into counterfeit transactions. The money fabricated from this malware archetypal ensures that cyber abyss will not abandon this assisting endeavor. If anything, apprehend that these attacks will become added catlike and complex.

4. Compromising non-Windows platforms. Due to accretion depression with Windows, PC users are experimenting with added operating systems. Ubuntu is one operating arrangement of best for users new to Linux. Although the abundance of users is bound compared to Windows users, if the advance apparent becomes ample abundant on a non-Windows operating system, malware writers will investigate means to accommodation those systems.

5. Mobile malware. Smartphones are acceptable added all-over and, as added casework involving banking affairs are fabricated accessible to handsets, exploits that advantage vulnerabilities on smartphone operating systems are abiding to be targets for cyber criminals. While smartphone aegis threats accept been monitored by malware advisers for some time, contempo attacks accept brought the affair into focus, affirmation the charge for added security. Without a doubt, this is a blackmail area to watch in 2010.

To break safe in 2010, Lavasoft recommends that users defended their computers with adapted aegis software and stresses the charge to break acquainted and alert of the types of threats they may appointment online. Lavasoft offers educational assets for computer users including common aegis updates on the Malware Labs’ blog, The Rogue Gallery online database of accepted scareware programs, and the Lavasoft News monthly aegis newsletter.

More advice on Lavasoft’s aegis solutions as able-bodied as online aegis tips are accessible at www.lavasoft.com.

About Lavasoft
Founded in 1999, Lavasoft is "the aboriginal anti-spyware company", with over 400 actor downloads common for the flagship Ad-Aware product. A clandestine aggregation headquartered in Gothenburg, Sweden, Lavasoft provides aegis solutions for alone consumers and action audience alike, including anti-spyware, anti-virus, anthology optimization, firewall, agenda shredding, and encryption.
For added information, amuse acquaintance press(at)lavasoft(dot)com.

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