McAfee’s Dmitri Alperovitch on 2011’s Digital Threats: advanced persistent threats are persistent. Social media replacing e-mail as the primary distributor of malware as well as identity theft. Mobile devices will see increased threats not only to individuals but to their employers as well. Botnets will engage in advanced data gathering as exploit social networks. Hacktivists will increase its use of crowdsourcing to recruit an army of motivated hackers to pursue a political agenda, Alpervitch says.”]
Source: https://www.devicesecurity.io/persistence-trait-giving-infosec-leaders-headache-a-3244