Cyber-attacks will become more severe this year, with more sophisticated tactics and the prospect of sabotaging critical digital assets, according to Cyfirma, a Singapore-based cybersecurity company.
“For this year, cybercriminals will continue to evolve, attaining greater sophistication and modifying their tactics, techniques and procedures to outsmart cyberdefenders,” said Saurabh Lal, president of delivery and operations at Cyfirma, in a webinar held in partnership with nForce Secure, a Thai IT security distributor.
“With the development and wider adoption of new technologies like 5G, cryptocurrencies and industrial robotics, attackers will find renewed motivation to diversify with attacks that are not easy to foresee and difficult to mitigate.”
Cyfirma also highlighted 10 cyberthreats that would come to the fore this year.
The first concerns the fact that…
