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McAfee Inc, world's largest dedicated security technology company foresees Facebook and Twitter as the probable targets for the cybercriminals in the year 2010.

In its recently released report, ‘2010 Threat Predictions’, McAfee Labs feels that the cybercriminals will target social networking sites (such as the rapidly growing platforms of Facebook and Twitter) as well as various third-party applications.

The report also believes that the cybercriminals will make use of more complex Trojans and botnets to build and execute attacks.

The report also cites that the release of Google Chrome OS and the technological advancements of HTML 5 will continue to shift user activity from desktop to online applications, creating yet another opportunity for malware writers to prey on users.

Due to the growing popularity of Adobe applications, McAfee Labs expects that cybercriminals will continue to target Adobe products, primarily Acrobat Reader and Flash, two of the most widely deployed applications in the world.

McAfee Labs also predicts 2010 will be a good year for law enforcement’s fight against cybercrime.

“Over the past decade, we’ve seen a tremendous improvement in the ability to successfully monitor, uncover, and stop cybercrime,” said Jeff Green, senior vice president of McAfee Labs in the press statement. “We’re now facing emerging threats from the explosive growth of social networking sites, the exploitation of popular applications and more advanced techniques used by cybercriminals, but we’re confident that 2010 will be a successful year for the cybersecurity community.”