World-class IT specialists summed up the results of the cybersphere in 2020 and predicted the main trends in its future development.
So how will the cyberthreat landscape evolve in 2021 and what large companies and ordinary Internet users should be wary of:
✔️ threats will be scaled through supply chain attacks (a new threat that mainly targets software developers and vendors);
✔️ hackers will also target home networks (cybercriminals will use inadequately protected home networks as a means of accessing valuable corporate data);
✔️ attacks on cloud platforms will become more automated and massive, or targeted and manually controlled;
✔️ in 2021 we should expect new methods of fraud with mobile payments, which will be implemented through SMS-phishing with malicious URLs – to pay;
✔️ a significant part of attacks is predicted due to the misuse of QR-code in the era of the pandemic;
✔️ Well, social networks should not be excluded, this year they will become the main vector of attacks on endpoints.
So, take care to protect your data and be cyber secure!