A mid-year review of the cybersecurity threat landscape states that cyberattacks have emerged as a key nation-state weapon. State-sponsored hacktivism and “extortion” are also seen as important trends, according to a Check Point Research report.
Hacktivism is the infiltration of computer networks by politically or socially motivated hackers to solve political problems.
According to the report, more and more organizations are beginning to deploy metaverse solutions, so we could see the first attacks on the metaverse later in the year.
Ransomware became the top threat in the first six months of 2022, according to the report.
According to Check Point Research, the threat intelligence arm of cybersecurity solutions company Check Point, the number of cloud supply chain attacks via new sources of modules in the open source community has surged.
“However, the full extent of cyber’s ability to do real harm to civilians is best illustrated by attacks across Costa Rica, crippling critical services.” As one Maya Horowitz said:
“The impact of the Ukrainian-Russian war on cyberspace has been dramatic both in scope and scale, and we have seen a significant increase in cyberattacks against organizations in all sectors and all countries this year.” she pointed out.
This could get even worse, especially now that ransomware is the number one threat to organizations. However, with the right expertise, strategy, and cybersecurity solutions in place, businesses can prevent attacks from occurring.
second half forecast
Research firms say ransomware will become a more fragmented ecosystem in the second half of the calendar year. Ransomware groups have become more structured and operate like business as usual, with goals set, but their size and power have attracted so much attention that they have led to their demise. Conti Ransomware There are lessons to be learned from groups. “Going forward, I believe there will be many small and medium-sized groups rather than a few large groups to effectively hide inconspicuously,” he said.
Growing hacktivism
The report states that hacktivism will continue to evolve as hacktivist groups align their attacks to the nation-state objectives of their choice. Hackers continue to attack decentralized blockchain networks.
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August 5, 2022
