Dangerous Malware Security trends

Data breaches and anti-social activities are on rise which is one of the significant concerns of IT leaders and security researchers who are constantly at work to curb these issues. Hackers, crackers and online criminals continually find new security gaps to exploit, and new ways to get at your personal data. This year at the RSA security conference several companies explored new ways to deal with these issues in coming months reports Nick Mediati in pcworld.com.

Take a glimpse of some of the dangerous new malware trends to watch for in 2012.

Invisible and Irremovable

Invisible And Irremovable

Unlike the traditional malware and viruses this new category malware infects your pc and you may not even realize it. While older malware could be identified on the PC, newer forms of may not even have an interface, and they may not seriously impact your PC's performance. Although they may not lead to awful consequences, but they run in the background, seemingly invisible to you.

This invisible and hard-to-spot malware can also be extremely hard to remove. For example, a relatively new rootkit called ZeroAccess effectively kills any program that tries to access it and makes extremely difficult to disable it as it buries itself deep into your system hence the name ZeroAccess.

Site Specific Malware

Site Specific Malware

Super targeted malwares a new kind of malware are also on the rise. These baddies can get into your browser history and moreover check to see and infect you when you've visited certain sites. For instance, a malware to steal your online banking related information might check to see if you visited a particular bank's website. Mediati says one can expect more malware in near future that would be designed to go after certain groups of people or specific bits of information.

Mobile Malware

Mobile Malware

Android specific malware are on rise which was a big story last year. A recent report by McAfee revels that 2011 was by far the busiest periods during which mobile malware increased exponentially with Android phones being the number one target for writers of mobile malware. Cyber-criminals earn significant amount of money by spreading common type of Android malware.

Pay off and Deal with malware

Pay off

 

Some fake antivirus software won't go away unless you pay up likewise there are malware that take nothing less than a ransom. The team at security software company Malwarebytes sees it as a increasing problem. The company gave an example where a piece of malware would lock you out of your computer entirely unless you pay up.

Ransomware means you are likely at the risk of getting hit twice: When you pay to remove the infection, you end up giving your credit card information to criminals who might go on to use your account deceitfully.

SSL not so secure

SSL

The Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a commonly-used protocol for managing the security of a message transmission on the Internet.  Most of the users think that their data is safe and securely transmitted over the internet when they see the padlock icon but hackers have found ways to get retrieve this information even before it is sent.

These newly discovered malwares attack the information which is to sent be through the internet even before it is encrypted and protected with SSL, these malwares can snatch you username and password before the encryption process kicks in.