Kaspersky Lab reveals 2018’s threat predictions

2018 will mark the arrival of more high-end mobile malware and a continuation of the destructive attacks witnessed this year, according to Kaspersky Lab, which has laid out what it thinks will happen in the world of online security over the next 12 months.

The cybersecurity giant predicts that more legitimate software will be poisoned by groups targeting wider victim profiles, with attacks benefitting from being extremely hard to spot and mitigate.

Other hard-to-block attacks, such as those involving high-end mobile malware, are also set to rise as attackers resort to new tricks to breach increasingly well-protected targets.

Supply chain attacks have demonstrated how easily third-party software could be used to gain entry into enterprises and this tactic is expected to become more common in 2018.

Juan Andrés Guerrero-Saade, a principal security researcher with Kaspersky’s global research and analysis team, explained: “As advanced threat actors continue to gain access to vulnerable development companies, back-dooring of popular or regionally-popular software will become an increasingly desirable attack vector.

“Supply chain attacks will allow attackers to successfully gain access to multiple enterprises in target sectors while flying under the radar of system administrators and security solutions alike.”

Kaspersky also predicts router and modem hacks to become more widespread.

You can read the full prediction report for free at securelist.com/ksb-threat-predictions-for-2018/83169.