Toolkits and applications for phishing, spam, malware, scareware and snoopware can today be acquired relatively easily from underground sites or even purchased legally, lowering the financial and intellectual entry barriers to acquire tools to facilitate unauthorized access to information and communication systems to manipulate or destroy them.

Snoopware is going mobile, threatening user privacy through the possibility of voice/data call monitoring with devastating consequences, especially for the growing number of corporate users who rely on their smartphones for confidential discussions and data exchanges with their corporate IT systems. With the phenomenal growth in mobile telephony (including smartphones), together with convergence, which is bringing down the walls between networks, cyberthreats can now spread easily to all platforms and to all countries .

As information technology becomes an ever greater part of our lives, and as ubiquitous connections to the Internet become a reality, with computers integrated into a growing number of household appliances, it is increasingly likely that cyberthreats will spread to new levels and affect us in ways unimaginable today.
 

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