In 2009 amount of malware will increase
Posted: December 23rd, 2008 | Tags: Hackers, Internet, Malware, Security |Experts from PandaLabs predict further increase of amount of malware programs.
From January till August 2008 Panda Security laboratory has found out the same quantity of new kinds of malware that for previous seventeen years together taken. In 2009 this tendency, according to experts, will remain or even progress.
In forthcoming year dominating types of harmful programs, according to PandaLabs forecast, will become bank trojans and fake antiviruses. Cybercriminals will rely even more often on social networks and quite legal resources cracked through vulnerability in server platforms. Besides, experts mark, next year the technics of packing of a harmful code by means of special custom-made tools for the purpose of difficulty of its detection becomes especially popular.
Panda Security Laboratory also predicts substantial growth of quantity of the harmful software aimed at platforms of increasing popularity, such as Mac OS X, Linux or iPhone. Besides, in the conditions of financial crisis it is necessary to expect growth of popularity of false offers on the work which purpose consists in attraction of monetary actives.
For 2009 experts predict revival of classical harmful codes, such as viruses. These programs will be used not to violate correct work of systems or block access to files, but for the purpose of masking of trojans, used for theft of the bank information.
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