Trellix, a cybersecurity company delivering Extended Detection and Response (XDR), has released its annual threat predictions report for 2023.
Forecasts from the Trellix Advanced Research Centre anticipate spikes in geopolitically motivated attacks across Asia and Europe, hacktivism fuelled by tensions from opposing political parties and vulnerabilities in core software supply chains.
“Analysing current trends is necessary but being predictive in cybersecurity is vital,” said John Fokker, Head of Threat Intelligence, Trellix. “While organisations focus on near-term threats, we advise all to look beyond the horizon to ensure a proactive posture. Global political events and the adoption of new technology will breed novel threats from more innovative threat actors.”
The Trellix Advanced Research Centre brings together hundreds of the world’s most skilled security analysts and researchers to serve the global threat intelligence community and organisations with the latest threat indicators and insights collected from Trellix’s extensive sensor network.
Trellix Advanced Research Centre forecasts the following threats in 2023:
- Geopolitics and grey-zone conflict
- Hacktivism takes centre stage
- Skeletons in the software closet will multiply
- Increasing activity by teen cybercriminals
- Declining accuracy of code-based attribution
- Imminent global cyberthreat to critical infrastructure as cyberwarfare evolves
- Weaponised phishing attacks will increase across commonly used business communication services and apps
- Attackers to target IoT devices to mine cryptocurrency
- Satellites and other space assets to be increasingly compromised
- Huge jump in voice phishing attacks with less-aware tech users being primary target
- Attacks against Windows domain will scale
