Top Cybersecurity Predictions for 2020
The 2020 Cybersecurity Landscape
Here we are again for the annual prediction of the events that I believe will impact the cybersecurity landscape in the next year. Let’s try to imagine what threats and bad actors will influence the cyber arena in the next 12 months.
Targeted ransomware attacks on the rise
In 2020, we will witness an increase of targeted ransomware attacks. Threat actors behind ransomware campaigns will switch tactics, leveraging access to organizations available for sale in the cybercrime underground.
Targeted ransomware attacks require a more accurate intelligence-gathering activity on the victims, but they can allow criminals to earn much more money and inflict maximum disruption to the victims.
This new tactic will allow threat actors to tailor attacks to organizations and large enterprises in almost any industry.
The targeted ransomware technique will lead to increased ransomware demands. Hospitals, school districts and municipalities continue to be privileged targets of cybercriminal organizations likely because they have limited resources and poor cyber hygiene.
Most nation-state attacks remain unattributed
Geopolitical tensions will cause a significant increase of cyber espionage campaigns and disruptive cyberattacks. Once again, the lack of a global framework of norms of state behavior in cyberspace and the absence of sanctions for rogue nation-state actors will continue to encourage state-sponsored hacking.
APT groups linked to Russia and China will carry out numerous operations against countries worldwide, respectively aimed at Western and Asian states. The level of sophistication of campaigns carried out by nation-state actors will continue to increase, making it impossible to attribute to specific threat actors. In 2020, the number of attacks associated with Advanced Persistent Threat actors that haven’t been previously identified by the security researchers will increase.
IoT devices under attack
The exponential increase in the number of IoT devices, along with the 5G networks roll (Read more...)
*** This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog from Infosec Resources authored by Pierluigi Paganini. Read the original post at: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/infosecResources/~3/rp8GZbCSWds/
