Threats to cyber security in 2020
Washington … News Time
Where technology has assembled the world on a global platform, technology experts are also aware of the cybersecurity risks facing the world next year. According to Etta Moore, who belongs to technology sites in detail, the use of automatic target hacking through artificial intelligence is a major threat in 2020. In particular, artificial intelligence (deepfake), the spread of corruption and anonymous news, will increase as 2020 is the election year in the United States.
Deepfake means images and videos that are created using computer and machine learning software to know they are real, even though they are not. Experts predict that this technology can be used to create misunderstandings and spread misinformation, especially in the context of global politics and can be extremely difficult to detect. What is even more terrifying to learn a computer program is to use it to hurt. But it is being seriously considered how the cyber threat theory has evolved in recent years and is viewed as a major threat to the global economy.
In the past, targeting websites, eliminating them and stealing credit card information was considered a major example of cyber-attacks. But these attacks were economically expensive because they required more time and resources to carry out the invaders. Through Artificial Intelligence, an attacker can perform multiple and frequent attacks on the network, programming some lines of code to do most of the work. Cybersecurity Company Forcepoint predicts that cyber criminals can use deepfake technology to produce images and videos and threaten that they will be released if ransom demands are met. Alvin Rodrigues, Asia Pacific’s senior director and security strategist at Forcepoint, told the foreign news agency that employees will be targeted by transferring money into fake accounts at the organizational level.
In 2020, cyber attacks will be used as a proxy war among smaller countries, the company said in a blog post, which will provide financial support from large countries and financial support to further consolidate their influence. He pointed to the US conducting a secret cyber operation against Iran after attacks on Saudi oil installations. In addition to the deepfakes risks the cyber security threats will face next year are:
Supply Chain and Third Party Attacks: Experts say that because large companies invest a lot of money for cyber security measures, and attackers focus on easy, small, and low-fund targets. These types of attacks are likely to occur in areas such as healthcare, automotive and broadcasting, he predicted.
FiveG will make data theft easier: According to Rodriguez of Force Point, there is widespread access to the new generation of high-speed mobile Internet, and cyber criminals will have the opportunity to rapidly move large amounts of data from one survey to another online. “With the rollout of 5G in 2020, we can expect data theft volume and speed to increase,” he said.
Fear of targeting key infrastructure: Checkpoint predicts in its blog post that attacks on critical infrastructure will increase. Criminals can carry out cyber-attacks on infrastructure and utilities. In many cases, the firm writes, the use of outdated technology in power and water distribution infrastructure is feared to be exploited in remote areas as upgrading disrupts services.
Geographic politics, cyber espionage and state terrorism have an impact: In a 2020 forecast report, cyber security company FireEye said tensions are often the leading cause of cyber-interference and devastating attacks. The activities of the national state are expected to continue. The firm says operations linked to Russia, China, Iran and Venezuela has been witnessed, spreading different types of information. The company says that although they are not limited to elections, we observe these activities, especially around the elections.
