APT Predictions 2020 As it happened..Predicting 2021

Trying to make predictions about the future is a tricky business. As per the researchers what they predicted and what is happened.. and what going to happen they elobrated

• The next level of false flag attacks
  Olympic Destroyer , Death Stalker
• From ransomware to targeted ransomware
  Attacks targetting mainly hospitals and universities
• New online banking and payments attack vectors
  FIN7, Cobalt Groups, Silence and Magecart, as well as APT threat actors such as Lazarus.
• More infrastructure attacks and attacks against non-PC targets
  Tunnel Snake, Mosaic Regressor
• Increased attacks in regions that lie along the trade routes between Asia and Europe
  Strongpity4
• Increasing sophistication of attack methods
  Geo-fencing attacks or hosting malware and used for C2 communications).
• A further change of focus towards mobile attacks
  TwoSail Junk
• The abuse of personal information: from deep fakes to DNA leaks
  Leaked/stolen personal information is being used more than ever before in up-close and personal attacks.

Turning our attention to the future, these are some of the developments that we think will take center stage in the year ahead, based on the trends we have observed this year.

APT threat actors will buy initial network access from cybercriminals

More countries using legal indictments as part of their cyberstrategy

More Silicon Valley companies will take action against zero-day brokers

Increased targeting of network appliances

The emergence of 5G vulnerabilities

Demanding money “with menaces”

More disruptive attacks

Attackers will continue to exploit the COVID-19 pandemic