Next year, a hacktivist organization or nation-state will launch a coordinated attack against the infrastructure of the internet. The industry already saw the impact of an attack against a critical piece of internet infrastructure when a DDoS attack against DNS hosting provider, Dyn, took down many popular websites including Twitter, Reddit, and Amazon.com. Around the … [Read more...]

As biometric logins become more common, hackers will take advantage of their use as a single-factor method of authentication to pull off a major attack in 2019.  Biometric login methods such as face and fingerprint readers on consumer devices like smartphones and gaming consoles present a tempting target for hackers. While biometrics are more convenient than … [Read more...]

In 2019, a new breed of fileless malware will emerge, with wormlike properties that allow it to self-propagate through vulnerable systems and avoid detection. It has been over 15 years since the Code Red computer worm spread through hundreds of thousands of vulnerable Microsoft IIS web servers in an early example of a fileless worm. Since then, both worms and fileless … [Read more...]

You may remember the fictional concept of a “fire sale” attack from the fourth Die Hard movie, in which a terrorist group planned a coordinated cyber attack against U.S. transportation, financial, and public utilities and communication systems. The terrorists meant to use the fear and confusion caused by the attack to siphon off huge sums of money and disappear without a … [Read more...]