Security News > 2022 > February > Top threat activities this year

ZeroFox published a threat intelligence forecast for 2022, detailing expected cybercriminal behavior trends including ransomware, malware-as-a-service, vulnerabilities and exploits.

Within the report, the ZeroFox Intelligence team reviews 12 months of threat actor activity from 2021 and provides go-forward recommendations for security teams as we continue into 2022.

Key takeaways include an assessment of increasing ransomware threats targeting the financial, manufacturing, retail and healthcare sectors, a predicted surge in data kidnapping attacks, and a continued upward trajectory of third-party compromises targeting vendors within larger supply chains.

Threat actors around the world made 2021 an extremely stressful year for security teams-perhaps the most challenging year on record.

Looking towards 2022, it is imperative that security teams understand the growing external cybersecurity threat landscape and criminal underground to appropriately resource their teams and employ strategies to effectively address emerging threat tactics, techniques, and procedures; not last year's TTPs. Key external threat trends and forecast for 2022 Ransomware: A continued increase in ransomware attacks and extortion activities is anticipated, particularly targeting the financial, manufacturing, retail, and healthcare sectors.

Initial access brokers: The demand for initial access brokers services will continue to thrive in 2022, with more threat groups or individual actors attempting to sell access given the relatively low risk and high demand from various malicious groups.

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