Trend Micro survey results claim that AI set to replace humans in cybersecurity by 2030. Modern cybercrime is becoming increasingly open-sourced which means that already some of the most sophisticated and notorious cybercriminals are utilizing open-source tools to conduct their criminal activities and this will increase. Ransomware victims that have backups are paying ransoms to stop hackers leaking their stolen data. In 2020, ransomware attackers moved quickly to adopt so-called “double extortion” schemes, which means that first they encrypt your data so you can’t access it and then they say they will publish your most secret data for other people to see if you don’t pay up. Pay-or-Get-Breached Ransomware Schemes Take Off in 2021. One sure bet is that ransomware attacks will only escalate further over this year.
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Cyber attackers are threatening to take organisations offline with DDoS attacks if they aren’t paid bitcoin by a deadline – but victims are being urged not to give in to demands. New Cybersecurity Threat Predictions for 2021 article points out the the traditional network perimeter has been replaced with multiple edge environments, WAN, multi-cloud, data center, remote worker, IoT, and more, each with its unique risks.ĭDoS attacks: Big rise in threats to overload business networks. In 2021 Trend Micro predicts that cybercriminals will look to home networks as a critical launch pad to compromising corporate IT and IoT networks. “We can’t be naive and expect that bad things will not happen along with it. We can’t be naive and expect that bad things will not happen along with it. Head of Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre: there are no systems that cannot be breached article says that humankind has to choose between evolution by digitization, and stagnation. Cybersecurity must adapt to counter new threats in a transformed world Kaspersky’s top three cybersecurity predictions for 2021 are increase in targeted attacks, attacks that are more disruptive exploiting contemporary issues and we will continue to have frequent and significant data breaches. Smart cyber security people have read about them and learned their lesson. 2021 Cybersecurity and IT Failures Roundup article presents you Lessons learned from the many failures, interruptions, crimes and other IT-related setbacks that made the news in 2020. The trends that stormed last year will continue long to 2021: “Rapidly accelerated digital transformations, opportunistic phishing campaigns, discontinuity of information security operations and financial constraints are creating the perfect storm in a COVID-19-disrupted world.” Last year trend was Instead of ‘bring your own device’, these days it’s rather ‘bring your own office’.Ģ020 was a bumper year for cybercriminals, and this boom is expected to continue into 2021. The State of internet security in 2020 was hard. Instead of trowing out wild ideas what might be coming, I have collected here some trends other people have predicted or reported. For this reason I did not do any “predictions for 2021 cyber security” posting before year 2021 started. Nothing is more difficult than making predictions.