The Cisco 2009 Annual Security Report has been released, looking at the most profitable areas cybercriminals are likely to focus on in the coming year.

“The Cisco Cybercrime Return on Investment Matrix identifies the innovative and lucrative banking Trojan Zeus, as well as more of the type of successful Web exploits that have dominated cybercrime as ‘rising stars,’” writes SearchSecurity.com’s Neil Roiter.

“Zeus and other banking Trojans, such as Clampi and URLZone, are particularly alarming,” Roiter writes. “Zeus had infected an estimated 3.6 million computers by October, and Clampi, which is newer, some hundreds of thousands.”

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