McAfee Labs 2020 Threats Predictions
Key trends to watch in 2020 include:
- Less-skilled threat actors will have more access and broader capabilities to create and weaponize deepfake content
- Adversaries will use artificial intelligence to produce extremely realistic text, images, and videos capable of bypassing facial recognition technology
- More ransomware attacks will morph into two-stage extortion campaigns
- DevSecOps will rise to prominence as growth in containerized workloads causes security controls to "shift left"
- Application Programming Interfaces (API) will be exposed as the weakest link leading to cloud-native threats
Example of underground ad offering access to an Asian Food, Consumer and Industrial company
Archived predictions
2019 Threats Predictions
Synergistic threats, extortion attempts, and data exfiltration are among the topics covered in our 2019 predictions.
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Topics include how the adversarial machine learning arms race is heating up, how ransomware is pivoting to new targets, and more.
Read Report2017 Threats Predictions
Cloud threats, internet of things (IoT) threats regulations, and vendor response are covered in our 2017 predictions.
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