McAfee announced its 2009 threat predictions. The top trend to emerge for 2009 is the continued exploitation of the financial crisis to scam users with fake financial transactions services, fake investment firms, and fake legal services. The report examines the accuracy of last year's predictions and provides new insight as to where computer security threats are headed this year.
"Computer users face a dangerous one-two punch today," said Jeff Green, senior vice president of McAfee(R) Avert(R) Labs, McAfee's research group. "The current economic crisis is delivering a blow to our financial well-being, while malware authors are taking advantage of our distraction to deliver a roundhouse strike."
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