WASHINGTON: A series of cyberattacks spectacular attracted headlines this year, and the situation will worsen in 2015 that hackers use advanced techniques to infiltrate networks, security researchers said Tuesday.
2015 Threat Predictions report from McAfee Labs believes that increasing cyber warfare and espionage, with new strategies against hackers to hide their tracks and steal confidential data.
2015 Threat Predictions report from McAfee Labs believes that increasing cyber warfare and espionage, with new strategies against hackers to hide their tracks and steal confidential data.
"Cyber espionage attacks continue to increase in frequency," the report said.
"Players will become information collectors stealth long term, while newcomers will seek ways to steal money and disrupt their opponents."
McAfee said that small nations and terrorist groups become more active and "launching distributed denial of service or malware that eliminates the master boot record of the destruction of their enemies networks attacks stun attack."
Meanwhile, cybercriminals use better methods to remain hidden in the victim net ..
"In this way, criminals begin to look and act more like nation-state actors sophisticated cyber espionage, watching and waiting to collect information," said the report.
The report also says that hackers try to attack more connected devices, including computers in agriculture, manufacturing and healthcare.
"The number and variety of devices on the Internet of Things (IoT) family is growing exponentially. In the consumer space, which are now considered in appliances,, building automation, automotive industry, and light bulbs, even, "McAfee said.
McAfee said he already sees hackers targeted devices such as webcams with weak security systems and industrial control. But he sees health as a particularly worrying sector.
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