The Most Prominent Emerging Cybersecurity Threats

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1. Evolving Traditional Cybersecurity Threats

Cyber threats such as phishing, malware, trojans, and botnets will remain prominent; it seems obvious. Such attacks, mostly mined from company websites and social networks, are increasingly automated and customized to personal information. These kinds of hazards will continue to increase in number and frequency as movements towards automation increase.

These risks may be influenced by current events as well. During the pandemic, we saw a surge in phishing emails, taking advantage of the unfamiliarity of victims with remote job applications or claiming to contain information of much-needed stimulus checks.
Since malware and social engineering operations are industrialized, cybercriminals may analyze and fine-tune their attacks until they have a genuinely dangerous threat with a considerable success rate based on the results achieved.

Fileless attacks are also not limited to individual organizations: we see attackers constantly targeting service providers, exploiting their management tools, networks, and compromising their clients.

2. Attacks ...
... on Clouds and Remote Services

The COVID-19 pandemic caused new cloud platforms, remote access tools, and collaboration applications to be embraced rapidly by businesses. Many organizations, however, lacked IT experts with the necessary training to correctly configure these solutions.

Server applications, containers, and cloud storage are not always well-secured, and cybercriminals see them as prime targets with a broad attack surface. Compromising one service can expose downstream scores of organizations, a variant of supplying a chain attack that, by infiltrating higher levels in the supply network and deploying payloads through the instruments you rely on and trust, sidesteps organizational protection. Misconfiguration just increases the threat, exposing attackers to more services. These situations will eventually contribute to data breaches.

3. Fileless Attacks

As the name suggests, fileless attacks do not rely on file-based payloads and typically do not create new files. They exploit instruments and features already present in the victim's environment. As a consequence, despite many preventions and identification solutions in place, they have the ability to pass under the radar.

A typical fileless attack may start with an emailed link to a malicious website. On that site, social engineering tricks will launch system tools that directly retrieve and execute additional payloads in system memory. Detecting malicious use of built-in system tools is a real challenge for conventional defenses, as opposed to their many legitimate automation and scripting uses.

4. Business Process Compromises

Cybercriminals often find flaws in the process flow of business operations, not in applications. We are seeing a rise in compromises in business processes, in which risk actors take advantage of structural, organizational vulnerabilities for financial benefit.

Attacks against business processes require significant knowledge of the structures and operations of the victims. On the target network, they frequently start with a compromised device from which cybercriminals can monitor the processes of the organization and eventually find weak links.

These attacks are often very discrete, and affected organizations may not detect them in a timely manner, particularly if, despite producing distinct results, the compromised process continues to operate 'as planned.'

5. Tailored Payloads

In compromising systems and data, targeted attacks are considerably more successful. This technique is beginning to get even more sophisticated.

From company websites, social media, and of course, by breaching individual systems on the network, cybercriminals will learn a lot about the network. They can create payloads specifically designed to bring down your network, armed with knowledge of the instruments and the vulnerabilities present in each.

Conclusion

Organizations must adapt their approaches to cybersecurity and data protection as cybercriminals continue to improve their technology and attack strategies. Businesses need to secure all their multi-domain workloads, data, and applications. This requires integrated data security solutions that automate the monitoring of processes, vulnerability assessments, and endpoint protection needed to stop emerging threats.

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