McAfee Inc, world’s largest dedicated security technology, said recently that – Cybercriminals may create problems with Social Networking. Before few days ago, twitter was hacked and now, in 2010 Facebook, Twitter, basically social networking sites are potential targets.

Overnight McAfee Avert Labs confirmed that there is a political element to Thursday’s cyberattacks that downed Twitter and slowed down Facebook. According McAfee Avert Labs, blogging site LiveJournal, video site Youtube and photo sharing service Fotki were also among the targets.

“What do they have in common? They all hosted an account of a pro-Georgian blogger who went under the nickname ‘Cyxymu’,” Dmitri Alperovitch, vice president of threat intelligence at McAfee Avert Labs, wrote in a blog published early Friday morning.

All the Web sites involved suffered a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on Thursday. Reportedly, the DDoS attacks were specifically on the pages hosted for Cyxymu, who had just a few days ago blogged about the upcoming one year anniversary of the war between Georgia and Russia. (The nickname is taken after Sukhumi, the capital of Abkhazia, one of Georgia’s pro-Russian breakaway republics.)

In addition to the web-based DDoS attacks, McAfee’s TrustedSource reputation system had also detected a spam campaign that referenced the targeted blogs, Alperovitch wrote.

“We believe this campaign had a dual-purpose,” Alperovitch wrote. One purpose was to attack the social networking Web sites, the other to flood Cyxymu’s inbox hosted by Google’s Gmail service with e-mail messages. “This was likely part of an intimidation campaign,” Alperovitch wrote.