cyber trends
CYBERCRIME IS EXPECTED
TO COST THE WORLD US$6
TRILLION BY 2021, WITH GLOBAL
SPENDING ON INFORMATION
SECURITY PRODUCTS AND SERVICES
SET TO GROW BY 8.7% THIS YEAR TO
US$124 BILLION. ASHRAF SHEET, REGIONAL
DIRECTOR, MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA
AT INFOBLOX, LOOKS AT SOME OF
THE CYBERSECURITY TRENDS THAT
SEEM POISED TO SIGNIFICANTLY
ALTER THE LANDSCAPE.
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Attacks powered by AI
For a long time, attackers have used
evasive techniques to bypass security
measures and avoid detection. Recently,
however, an entire underground
economy consisting of products, tools
and dedicated services has emerged to
assist attackers. Considering the ease
with which attackers can outsource
key components of the attacks, it is
predicted that evasion techniques will
become more agile due to Artificial
Intelligence this year.
Malware evasive techniques to bypass
Machine Learning engines have
increased in recent years. Bypassing AI
engines has already been on criminal’s
to-do-list for a while. This year though,
it is projected that criminals will also be
able to implement AI in their malicious
software to automate target selection
and check infected devices before
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Cybertrends
set to shape
the year ahead
deploying next stage malware and anti-
detection technologies.
Data exfiltration attacks to target
the cloud
In recent years, enterprises have
widely moved their data to the cloud
using Infrastructure and Platform-as-
a-Service cloud models such as AWS
and Azure. With a significant amount of
corporate data in the cloud, attacks on
cloud platforms are bound to increase.
With the adoption of Office365,
there has been a surge of attacks
on Office365 services, especially
attempts to compromise email. The
last few years have also seen many
high-profile data breaches attributed
to misconfigured Amazon S3 buckets.
The problem is that many of these
buckets are owned by vendors in their
supply chains rather than by the target
enterprises. These open buckets and
credentials allow bad actors to easily
attack S3 buckets.
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