4 new cybersecurity threats in 2019

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Cybersecurity threats continue to evolve, and the nature and sophistication of attacks vary widely. With more businesses moving their files to the cloud, health care organizations shifting to electronic records, and consumers making financial transactions online, you can be sure that malicious hackers aren’t far away.

The Center for Internet Security, an independent non-profit that’s building a global IT community to secure organizations against cyberthreats, has a sobering cybersecurity assessment for 2019. It says its current alert level is “guarded” because of “vulnerabilities in Google, Adobe, and Oracle products.” In particular, it says there is great concern over “multiple vulnerabilities in Google Chrome.”

1. Cryptojacking: Your machines make their money

Cryptojacking is a form of malware that’s designed to mine cryptocurrency on your system without your knowledge—and without you receiving any of the monetary benefits. It’s far more common than you might think; in one high-profile case, superstar footballer Cristiano Ronaldo’s site was planted with the malicious software. Plus, it’s designed to be subtle, so you might go months without actually detecting that you’ve fallen victim to it.

2. Phishing: A daily deluge of fake emails

Phishing attacks are a hacker mainstay and they aren’t going out of style anytime soon. For context, consider this: The U.S. Department of Defense thwarts nearly 36 million emails containing malware, viruses, and phishing schemes every single day. That’s more than a billion each month.

3. The use of artificial intelligence and machine learning

The term “cyberarmy” may conjure images of state-sponsored hackers working together to inflict distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on enemy infrastructure, but the fact is that new threats are increasingly dictated by artificial intelligence. Hackers are, quite literally, transferring their knowledge to computers for the aim of scaling the size and sophistication of intrusion attempts.

4. Political moves: Hacking by governments

To say that the world is divided right now might be a bit of an understatement.

With the U.S.-China trade war, the usual battle cries from North Korea and Iran, and peace in the Middle East a far-flung dream, it’s likely that national governments will turn to their cyberarmies for more hacking and intrusion attempts.

Government data breaches are a real thing, with the Stuxnet worm that affected Iranian nuclear facilities considered to be one of the most sophisticated of its type. But government-backed hackers won’t just attack rival government installations. A recent cyberattack against Airbus was attributed to Chinese hackers, a claim Beijing strenuously denied.

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