Sophos, a security vendor has released a 18-page report on potential security threat coming this year. Last year was a year of rapid changing nature of threat. Sophos summarizes the trends as follow:
- Malware authors are continuing to turn their backs on large-scale attacks.
- Explosive growth of web-based downloaders to spy on users.
- Trojans outnumbering Windows viruses and worms 4:1.
- New mass-mailing worm, Stratio had over 1000 unique variants in November.
- Email containing infected attachments down to 1 in 337.
- Most spams are continuing to be relayed by poorly protected US computers.
The outlook of security threat in 2007 is largely dim with 66% of businesses thinking of a worse year. Even with the launch of Windows Vista end of the month, users are advised not to rely solely on Vista’s security improvements. Why? Windows is the targeted platform for attack and will continue to be the case in the near future.