What’s Ahead
Jim Gogolinski is vice president of research and intelligence at iboss. He said ransomware will continue to get more sophisticated and ransoms will keep increasing. He also predicts more class-action lawsuits will emerge against companies that are breached.
Every nation is jockeying for power and as a result upping their game when it comes to advanced persistent threats (APTs), he said. Cyber mercenary organizations will continue to grow in prominence as they often conduct APT attacks on behalf of nations, to give the nation-states a degree of deniability.