What Cyber Criminals Are Planning To Do in 2014?


Competing Enterprises: Snowden's leaks have showed that one of the goals of cyber spying between states is to provide financial aid to 'friendly' companies. The ethical barrier which initially prevented businesses from using un-conventional methods to overcome competition is broken. The new reality of cyberspace is that the businesses are thinking about conducting this kind of activity. Enterprises would employ organized groups of qualified hackers who offer bespoke cyber-spying services.

The weakest link: Employees are considered the weakest link in the enterprise network. With BYOD policy of the companies, employees use their venerable device in the enterprise network. The device may have unverified applications installed on them which can lead to crucial data being compromised.  

Developers: Software developers have to worry about the theft of popular product sources from gaming industry and mobile apps. This gives attackers an opportunity to find vulnerable areas in the products.

Further, if cybercriminals have access to the victim's storage, they can modify the program’s source code and embed trapdoors into it.

Death of Internet?: Alexander Gostev, chief security expert of the global research & analysis team said, "The Internet has begun to break up into national segments. As this trend develops further, it may lead at some point to the collapse of the current Internet, which will break into dozens of national networks.”

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