McAfee Avert Labs, the research arm of the popular antivirus vendor, yesterday unveiled its predictions for 2007, based on its analysis of more than 217,000 threats collected to date. “The increasing use of video formats on social networking sites such as MySpace, YouTube, and VideoCodeZone will attract malware writers seeking to easily permeate a wide network,” says David Marcus, security research and communications manager at McAfee Avert Labs. Similarly, the emergence of smarter, better-connected mobile devices and services will make wireless systems a juicy target in 2007. PC-to-phone and phone-to-PC infections, which first emerged in 2006, will increase in 2007, McAfee Avert Labs predicts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Parasites — viruses that modify existing files on a disk — are also making a comeback, McAfee Avert Labs says. While this approach was popular in the early days of viruses, parasitic infectors currently make up less than 10 percent of all malware, McAfee Avert Labs says.<\/p>\n
While the new attack vectors are worth watching, attackers will increase their exploits using well-known methods also, according to the researchers. Password-stealing Websites, which mimic the login pages of popular Websites such as eBay, will continue to be a popular mode of attack in 2007, Marcus says.<\/p>\n
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