List of cyber attack threat trends

Internet social engineering attacks
Network sniffers
Packet spoofing
Session-hijacking
Cyber-threats & bullying (not illegal in all jurisdictions)
Automated probes and scans
GUI intrusion tools
Automated widespread attacks
Widespread, distributed denial-of-service attacks
Industrial espionage
Executable code attacks (against browsers)
Analysis of vulnerabilities in compiled software without source code
Widespread attacks on DNS infrastructure
Widespread attacks using NNTP to distribute attack
"Stealth" and other advanced scanning techniques
Windows-based remote access trojans (Back Orifice)
Email propagation of malicious code
Wide-scale trojan distribution
Distributed attack tools
Targeting of specific users
Anti-forensic techniques
Wide-scale use of worms
Sophisticated botnet command and control attacks