The experts revealed that the mode of people use the Internet and their computers have evolved significantly and so have the cyber criminals. They have distorted their tactics accordingly.

It really speaks to a Web 2.0 world. People communicate another way today, people transact and pay their bills differently today, and that drives today's criminals," ABC Science quoted David Marcus, director of safety research and communications for McAfee Labs, which this week free its 2010 Threat Predictions report, as saying.

"Bad guys tend to go anywhere the masses go," he added.

Not only has the quantity of threats escalated radically, the delivery methods have also become more complicated, he said.

Cyber criminals more and more leverage the news of the day to attack unsuspecting consumers.
Whether it is celebrity deaths or natural disasters, Marcus says criminals will find a way to cover their malware in the headlines you want to read.

According toward McAfee, Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites -- will become major targets for cyber criminals.