McAfee’s cyber threats predictions for 2019 are pretty scary. Bots will soon target companies instead of political figures. Cybercriminals groups will attempt to extort organizations and undermine their brands with this tactic.
There will be a period of consolidation in cybercrime, with malware-as-a-service families that are fewer in number but stronger, and designed to work together. The use of affiliate structures in ransomware will continue.
Artificial intelligence will play a larger role in cyber attacks, and be used to avoid detection, automate target selection, or to check infected environments before deploying later stages of attacks.
Cybercrime will become more sophisticated, with different kinds of threats used in tandem (such as crypto jacking, random ware, phishing). These synergistic threats are hard to classify, and harder to mitigate.
New mobile malware will target Internet of Things devices in the home. Smartphones, tablets and routers will be used to gain access to digital assistants and the IoT devices they control. This “picklock” approach will give criminals access to consumers’ homes while supplying botnets.
The full predictions are discussed in further detail in this blog post:
https://securingtomorrow.mcafee.com/mcafee-labs/mcafee-labs-2019-threats-predictions/
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McAfee 2019 Predictions: Attackers Will Use Artificial Intelligence To Avoid Detection
McAfee’s cyber threats predictions for 2019 are pretty scary. Bots will soon target companies instead of political figures. Cybercriminals groups will attempt to extort organizations and undermine their brands with this tactic.
There will be a period of consolidation in cybercrime, with malware-as-a-service families that are fewer in number but stronger, and designed to work together. The use of affiliate structures in ransomware will continue.
Artificial intelligence will play a larger role in cyber attacks, and be used to avoid detection, automate target selection, or to check infected environments before deploying later stages of attacks.
Cybercrime will become more sophisticated, with different kinds of threats used in tandem (such as crypto jacking, random ware, phishing). These synergistic threats are hard to classify, and harder to mitigate.
New mobile malware will target Internet of Things devices in the home. Smartphones, tablets and routers will be used to gain access to digital assistants and the IoT devices they control. This “picklock” approach will give criminals access to consumers’ homes while supplying botnets.
The full predictions are discussed in further detail in this blog post:
https://securingtomorrow.mcafee.com/mcafee-labs/mcafee-labs-2019-threats-predictions/
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