List of cyber attack threat trends

• Analysis of vulnerabilities in compiled software without source code
• Anti-forensic techniques
• Automated probes and scans
• Automated widespread attacks
• Cyber-threats & bullying
• Distributed attack tools
• Email propagation of malicious code
• Executable code attacks
• Fully undetectable
• GUI intrusion tools
• Industrial espionage
• Internet social engineering attacks
• Network sniffers
• Packet spoofing
• Session-hijacking
• Sophisticated botnet command and control attacks
• "Stealth" and other advanced scanning techniques
• Targeting of specific users
• Widespread attacks on DNS infrastructure
• Widespread attacks using NNTP to distribute attack
• Wide-scale trojan distribution
• Wide-scale use of worms
• Widespread, distributed denial-of-service attacks
• Windows-based remote access trojans

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