Malicious Activity in the Year 2012

As time passes the threat of malicious activity increased. The onset of the London Olympics 2012 is also barred by malicious activity as many websites are spreading scam by pretending to sell fake tickets and promising to broadcast fake streaming of the Olympic Games live.

Apart from that mobile’s haven’t been left behind when it comes to malicious content as many websites disguised as Google PlayStore worked the market with their Russian content. When users searched the internet for the Olympic Games they were given a link for the application known as London2012-Official game and then led on to the malicious app which caused them to received several small e-mails that have subjects related to the Olympics.

Malware during the year

When it came to malware the recent research showed that in China was the most serious spreader of malicious content on the internet. After China, Brazil, Russia, India, Korea, Ukraine, Turkey and Italy stepped behind but majority of the world’s botnets and malware was spread through these countries and their domains.

Apart from this many countries around the world have been hit by malware attacks. Recently South Korea fell prey to malware attacks as 8.7 million people were attacked by spam and their information was spread on the internet.

Apart from that the Twitter breach exposed more than 80,000 Twitter accounts and caused problems for users all around the world as their information was spread on the internet widely and as publicly as possible. The flashback malware threat for OS attacked Apple Macs all around the world as more than 600,000 Mac’s fell prey to the spam attack.

Forecasted Malware in 2012

According to Kaspersky’s research the internet will be threatened towards malware but not as much as the attacks on mobile hubs. According to their information Android will be the most attacked operating system and later other operating systems would follow.

Currently the Android OS is the most highly attacked OS and it will be hit more seriously as time passes and hackers identify ways to penetrate into the OS. There will be an increase in malware activities in the Play Market. Although Google has been trying to verify its app’s the step would take a lot of time and Google can’t penetrate into every application that’s available on the internet.

Apart from Android, Windows 7 and Apple’s iOS won’t suffer much damage. The Windows 7 isn’t too highly referred in the market and hence it has a low risk of malware attacks. The iOS on the other hand will not be highly affected due to malware as well. Although two malware programs were identified by Apple as they penetrated into cracked devices, they were demolished from the Apple hub and didn’t do much damage.

Once mobile malware is done, there will be a significant increase in internet hacking as well. Already hackers have hacked into various portals; FOX News and CNBC fell prey to hacker attacks as they seized the Twitter accounts and posted fake content. This will further increase and hackers will also try to penetrate into official government institutions as well as business portals to create losses.

User’s are also expected to be targeted as data theft and cloud attacks are increasing, the best example is Dropbox. Consumer’s and their use of applications will cause both mobile’s and Laptop’s/PC’s to falter due to loopholes in systems and application designing so in case you’re about to download Flash player or a spyware application such as parental control software or Nokia spy, then make sure it’s safe or you could end up being a victim of an internet malware breach.

Stella Rebecca

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