Legitimate sites are often trusted by their visitors, which makes them a perfect target for cybercriminals. Solera lists attacks on legitimate, yet compromised sites as a growing trend for 2012 due to the increased amount of such sites containing unpatched vulnerabilities. Once compromised, hackers can use the legitimate sites to redirect unsuspecting visitors and put them in harm's way. According to Solera, malicious spam is another undesirable item that should increase in 2012. Various methods, such as email, instant messaging, attachments, malicious links, and social networks will cont...
