Security News > 2021 > October > If your hair isn't already gray, 2022's security threats will get it there, warn infosec duo

FireEye and McAfee, whose business models center around charging enterprises money to protect their networks from cyber-threats, issued a joint report this week predicting next year you'll see an increase in cyber-threats, particularly those against enterprise networks and the staff who run them.

Nation states will "Increase their offensive operations by leveraging cybercriminals." as senior principal McAfee engineer Christiaan Beek theorized, citing the example of US indictments against four Chinese nationals who were allegedly running front companies on behalf of Beijing.

On top of that, McAfee chief research scientist Raj Samani added that nation state-level threat actors are likely to "Target more enterprise professionals," too, during 2022.

North Korea has also made use of this tactic, with McAfee's warning reiterating previous findings that APT38, North Korea's state cyber-spying bureau, has used LinkedIn to target people of interest.

Although the rise of nation states targeting ordinary businesses over the past few years has been a genuinely new thing, most of the time warnings and predictions boil down to following straightforward security advice.

For now the threat to enterprises comes mainly from ransomware and hostile nations' intelligence agencies looking for information to steal - and 2022 looks like it'll be very similar to 2021 in that regard.

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