2007: Cybercrime will be more dangerous

In 2007, hackers will be more organized, cybercrime communities will be more likely, and attacks and methods to hack into users' computers will be richer and more sophisticated.

Websense announced in a report on December 18, which showed the experts' predictions that trading, exchanging attack tools and mining operations, Websense said in a report on December 18. zero-day vulnerability will be more exciting. Websense also said that Web 2.0-related security issues will " escalate " next year.

" Cybercriminals are finding that the Internet is a source of endless profits. It is also thanks to earning money from illegal activities that forms of attack are increasingly changing in a more sophisticated way, and numbers are Affected people also increased exponentially, "said Dan Bubbard, vice president of security research at Websense. He also said that tools and codes for exploiting personal, business and financial information will be the most attractive areas for cybercrime.

The year 2006 witnessed the rapid transformation of cyber crime types. Websense predicts this trend will continue to increase in 2007 when hackers and organized criminals join together to attack victims. Also due to this trend, the zero-day attack code market will be more competitive, and will increase the number of zero-day attacks on client and server machines.

Popular Web 2.0 sites like MySpace and Wikipedia will attract special attention from cyber criminals. Websense reports say Web 2.0 sites (especially social networks) are currently vulnerable because of the nature of these sites is constantly changing content, and therefore It is very difficult to monitor and secure. Not only are social networks affected, but enterprise networks also have many interesting flaws.