Not that this is likely to surprise anybody, but Fairfax has a report from security expert Bruce Schneier that details that Windows is still the favourite OS of malicious parties everywhere and that DCOM and RPC appear to be the favoured attack vectors used when writing malicious code. Not to mention flaws in web browsers like Internet Explorer. The prediction of future attacks being “blended” in that they target specific software flaws with exploit code and can therefore spread without human interaction is nothing new either since it’s happened several times already. So apparently we can expect more of the same except for the likelihood that such code is going to be able to target several different exploits in the same Virus/Worm package. Interestingly he also predicts that peer to peer networks will be used more in the future as a distribution mechanism for malicious code and that more of them will use search engines to target specific hosts in an effort to hide their presence better.
