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December is the month to look back on the year that is coming to an end, and we will attempt to sum up the situation seen from a security company's point of view. The most significant observation to make from this year's malware activity, is that different social networks became a major target for authors of malicious programs.

Major events, happenings and in general all kind of things that create much notice, also leave in their wake a stream of malicious software.

Identity theft is a term, which has become familiar during the latest years. More exotic - until recently - has been identity production with malicious intent. A new version of Koobface does exactly that - automatically.

Earlier this month multiple tens of thousand passwords to free email accounts from Microsoft (Hotmail), Google (GMail) and Yahoo were compromised.