Do you trust the internet? With your entire life revolving around the internet, answering this question is very difficult. Almost all businesses, large or small, organizations, and even government corporations rely on technology for their day-to-day activities. The digital revolution has significantly impacted the lives of ordinary individuals, and today, their lives depend on the internet. Cybersecurity threats becomes even more critical with such a massive impact of technology on us. Data breaches, ransomware, phishing attacks, etc., are examples of cyberthreats that put organizations, individuals, and government data under constant risk.
Protecting your vulnerable data from potential risks and threats is indeed a big deal. Massive cyberattacks can cause disruption of sensitive data, breaches of national security, and paralyzing military operations at a substantial rate. In 2022, Cybersecurity threats are expected to increase due to the enormous surge of the technology revolution. Here’s all you must know about the rising cyber threats this year can experience. Let’s have a look:
#1 Cloud-based vulnerabilities
Do you think the cloud infrastructure in which you work is safe? The world is moving intensely towards cloud computing. With a great bundle of opportunities and convenience to businesses for their operations, organizations largely depend on cloud servers. However, each new technology comes with a lot of vulnerabilities. The biggest goal of organizations depending on cloud-based networks is to protect their sensitive data from Cybersecurity threats.
The massive transformation of cloud experience exposes businesses to significant cyber security threats and related vulnerabilities. So, we can say that cloud servers will be one of the most incredible places for potential attackers in 2022.
#2 Rising Phishing attacks
Have you ever received a mail with a suspicious link, accidentally clicked on it, and later found your data is compromised? This is what phishing attacks look like. In this, attackers usually target employees of the organizations by sending them emails or messages with suspicious links. When they click on these links, they enter and dwell within their servers to attack their sensitive information.
They target organizations and individuals for stealing their login credentials, credit card details, and other sensitive information. Generally, attackers use disguising techniques to enable the recipients to click on the given link posing as coworkers, managers, seniors, or business associates. This technique tricks the employees into opening the emails and clicking on the links.
#3 Increasing Ransomware
Ransomware has been a rising concern for businesses over the past few years. With such a great deal of ransomware kits available in the market, the potential threats will only increase in 2022. Being such a profitable trick for the attacker, there are hardly any chances of going away in the future.
Under this, potential attackers target the users’ encrypted data and warn the users that they will publish credentials or block their access unless they get a ransom. That is why it is among the most painful cybersecurity threats for businesses and individuals.
Also, the increase of virtual assets like cryptocurrencies has increased the occurrence of ransomware. Now, attackers get great opportunities to steal your encrypted information and ask for ransom in return. So yes, we can say that we are expecting more cases of ransomware in 2022.
#4 Crypto-jacking
Did you ever find out that someone else is using your computing power or internet speed? Crypto mining is a resource-intensive task that uses excellent computing power and the internet to validate their transactions. Since it is not easily possible for ordinary individuals to do this extremely exhausting task on standard computers and internet speed, they use crypto-jacking methods.
Under this, cybercriminals steal the data of third-party home or work computers for mining purposes. They use such tricks because it requires immense computing power, and cryptocurrency miners fulfill their needs by stealing third-party networks. It causes severe performance issues and network downtime for third-party networks as cryptocurrency miners use all their data.
#5 Mobile Banking Malware
The massive explosion of mobile users’ day-to-day banking needs has tremendously increased malware attacks. With so many users on mobile phones with lesser or no knowledge regarding safe mobile banking tactics, it increases vulnerabilities for cyber-attacks. Malware is typically software used by hackers or attackers to disrupt, steal, or damage a user’s personal information.
A user unknowingly allows the malware to access their systems for leaking personal information or gaining unauthorized access from a user to intrude on their privacy. Due to the lack of awareness among mobile users, this cyber threat has increased widely. Also, the attackers find several ways to intrude mobile users’ privacy. Thus, we can say it is one of the biggest threats for users and enterprises to protect their banking credentials.
#6 Automated attacks
With the volume of data multiplying rapidly, automation proved to provide a more sophisticated approach to organizations for improving their performance. Artificial Intelligence (AI) was brought to reduce the organization’s workload to help them deliver more efficient and quick solutions. For a couple of years, we have seen a wide use of IT for malicious attacks. The purpose of AI in industries is to strengthen their security systems initially.
However, we have seen that even the attacker has started using artificial intelligence for effective cyber-attacks. Attackers are using the power of automated attacks to make them more scalable and aggressive. Thus, we can say the same technology used to strengthen the security systems is also used to make them even more destructive.
#7 Human Threats
No matter how much technology advances today, human errors are still one of the major causes of a data breach in organizations. You cannot protect your organization’s data from attackers if your employees don’t react to the cyberattacks and other malicious practices. With effective employee awareness practices, insider threats can be reduced considerably. You need to adopt several techniques and strategies so that your employee will know how to deal with the various malicious or phishing attacks on your network.
#8 IoT Vulnerabilities
The increase of IoT devices in your day-to-day activities has become a new target for hackers and attackers. IoT brings the opportunity to interconnect multiple devices, which poses a higher risk to your data security. Connected devices make the operations more convenient and make your network more sophisticated.
Due to the interconnectivity, cyber-attacks on IoT devices can cause significant risk as all of your devices will be affected at once. So, we can say you need to be very cautious with this new growing technology in 2022 to keep your network secure from Cybersecurity threats. Once attacked by hackers, it can cause significant damages and losses to your data security.
#9 Remote work security
When the entire world moves to remote working, it increases the vulnerabilities of enterprise networks. Many enterprises worldwide started working even without any network perimeter security. This gave the cyber attackers more opportunities to target many enterprises intruding on their employee’s home networks.
As some enterprises plan to continue remote working even after 2022, security will be their massive cause of concern. If they continue work from home operations, they need robust security endpoints to secure their VPNs. For more information regarding upcoming cybersecurity trends in 2022 and beyond, stay tuned to Webstealer blogs.