The increasing focus on website solutions also apply to IT-criminals, according to McAfee Labs.
A great deal of innovation that today's going on in the IT industry, is about how best to exploit the benefits of the Web. Your browser has for many become the most important application you have on your computer.
Nothing suggests that this trend will reverse anytime soon. 
The increasing focus on website solutions draw unfortunately also to the criminal actors, who attempt to exploit weaknesses in the solutions and naive users.
McAfee Labs writes in a report on what to expect of threats in 2010, and most things are web related.
In particular, consider McAfee Labs with that attack through social networking services like Facebook and MySpace will become more sophisticated and harder to detect. In particular, the explosion of applications in Facebook and other services will be an ideal attack vector for each of the number of users grows.
McAfee Labs believes that HTML5 including offline functionality will obscure the distinction between desktop applications and web applications. This, together with the upcoming release of the Chrome OS will make it even more tempting for criminals to exploit the potential opportunities that lie here. The fact that web applications in the first place is platform independent, must be regarded as an advantage for malware authors.
However, there is little reason to change something that works. Therefore McAfee Labs believes that the spread of malicious e-mail attachments will continue on a large scale. As a result, many machines are infected with Trojans and other malware.
At the same time it is expected that malware is increasingly will be able to do harm, for example, to disrupt legitimate online banking to perform non-unauthorized withdrawals.
Malware that exploits vulnerabilities in software, have increasingly begun to focus on client applications instead of operating systems. Microsoft Office products have quite a long time been in the firing line for these attacks, but more and more directed now against Adobe's Flash and Acrobat products, which in addition to being installed on almost any computer, also is available for Mac and Linux.
Botnet is regarded as the most important infrastructure for online criminals. This is large network of "zombies", ordinary computers all over the world controlled by the Botnet after they have been infected with malware. Botnet used for everything from sending out spam to identity theft.
Many such botnets have become locked in the past year, something McAfee Labs believes will lead to the criminals will now go over to the alternate command methods that are less vulnerable, such as p2p technologies in place for today's more centralized solutions.
McAfee Labs believes that 2009 has been a good year for combating cyber crime as a result of, among other things, closer cooperation between police authorities in many countries. Nevertheless, there are many seemingly legal actors that contribute to this form of organized crime will take place. This applies not least registrars and ISPs in some countries, where the government has little good to set limits for this type of activity.
A solution based on denying these actors access to the Internet has yet proven to be effective, and McAfee Labs expects the fight against all forms of cyber crime will lead to even more successes in 2010 than we have achieved so far.
The entire report from McAfee Labs is available here (PDF).
