"Trellix Predicts Heightened Hacktivism and Geopolitical Cyberattacks in 2023"

The cybersecurity firm Trellix has released its annual threat predictions report for 2023. Trellix Advanced Research Center forecasts an increase in geopolitically motivated attacks across Asia and Europe, as well as hacktivism driven by tensions between opposing political parties and vulnerabilities in core software supply chains. According to John Fokker, Trellix's Head of Threat Intelligence, analyzing current trends is important, but being predictive in cybersecurity is critical. While organizations focus on near-term threats, it is essential to have a proactive posture by looking beyond the horizon. Global political events and the adoption of new technology will result in the emergence of novel threats from more sophisticated threat actors. Geopolitical factors will continue to drive misinformation campaigns and cyberattacks coordinated with kinetic military activity. When groups of loosely organized individuals fueled by propaganda band together for a common cause, they will increase their use of cyber tools to express their rage and cause disruption around the world. Both threat actors and security researchers will increase their research into underlying software frameworks and libraries, which will result in a rise in breaches related to software supply chain issues. Teens and young adults will become increasingly involved in cybercrime, from large-scale attacks on businesses and governments to low-level crimes against family, friends, peers, and strangers. Outsourcing malware creation and operation, malware diversification, and the use of leaked source code will make attribution of cyberthreats to specific threat actors increasingly difficult. There will be a significant increase in advanced cyber actors disrupting critical infrastructure in vulnerable targets. Weaponized phishing attacks will become more common across popular business communication services and apps such as Microsoft Teams, Slack, and others. This article continues to discuss threat predictions made by Trellix for 2023.

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