{"id":6979,"date":"2014-12-10T10:01:07","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T15:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/?p=6979"},"modified":"2020-02-26T10:58:18","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T15:58:18","slug":"ksb2014-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/ksb2014-predictions\/6979\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis Team’s Nine Security Predictions for 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s December, and in the security industry that means one thing: predictions from experts about what trends will emerge in the next year. As always, some stuff is new, while other items show up on these lists every year. Below are nine predictions from Kaspersky Lab\u2019s Global Research and Analysis Team<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cybercriminals Merge with APT Groups, Tactics<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is, in fact, one of the most interesting predictions. The idea here, as explicitly noted by Kaspersky Lab\u2019s experts, is that criminal groups will increasingly adopt nation-state tactics. Troels Oerting<\/a>, the head of Europol\u2019s Cybercrime Center, noted in a speech at Georgetown Law last week that this is already happening.<\/p>\n

However, whether they intended to or not, my researcher friends here at Kaspersky brought to my mind a second interesting possibility: that state-sponsored, advanced persistent threat hacking groups, like we\u2019ve seen in cases such as DarkHotel<\/a>, Regin<\/a> and Crouching Yeti\/Energetic Bear<\/a>, will begin to merge with hacking campaigns perpetrated by criminals, like those targeting JP Morgan Chase, Target and others.<\/p>\n

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#Darkhotel<\/a> APT in a single video: http:\/\/t.co\/NRqAl4docX<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Eugene Kaspersky (@e_kaspersky) November 10, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n