There are umpteen hackers trying to attack your systems, corrupt data, steal files, and generally do much more damage. The fun they get while doing this is equal to the amount of anxiety you will have when your data is gone. Hackers are constantly targeting people by refining their knowledge and breaking through defenses, antivirus, and security systems. Hundreds of cases are reported every month, and these are cases that threaten both organizations and people.

APT
Advanced persistent threats are a worry for the IT teams in organizations because this attack stays throughout and is prevalent. This attack is very dangerous because it takes a lot of time to figure out that the infected virus has secretly taken from your data without even hinting at anything. This is an advanced persistent threat and any solution against it is ineffective. The focus is on network level advanced persistent threat attacks that come from applications like emails, messengers, and communicators.

WAI
Weaponized artificial intelligence is massively important to the cyber security industry. Cybercriminals use artificial intelligence to attack their target. According to Black Hat survey in 2017, 62% of respondents believed that criminals using artificial intelligence to attack systems will be on the rise in the coming years. Cyber security operatives are concerned about how hackers use AI to target customers. It could be through phishing websites, spoofing, or any other methods, but they achieve it successfully. Never ever doubt getting a licensed antivirus installed on your computer.

Phishing
This technique has been in the industry for a very long time. Organizations are yet struggling to stay ahead of this attack. The threat landscape survey of SANS institute observed a study survey of 263 IT professionals. According to the study, 74% of threats in the previous two years were phishing threats that come via emails and pop-ups, and the remaining 26% entered via internet downloads. There are around 1.4 million different phishing websites created every month, and the main trap is taking the victim’s personal information and inserting viruses and bots into enterprise databases. Hence, it is extremely important to tell your employees often that they should avoid such phishing attacks. Every employee who enters into an organization should be given security training. Some employees themselves add to the trouble by creating such phishing websites. Organizations need to add different security layers and firewalls to their systems because any well-trained employee can make a mistake by clicking on email attachments, or pop up marketing links.

Mobile malware
Most mobile malware come from external parties. The numbers of mobile malware programs that keep on increasing are Trojans, Ransomware, Keyloggers etc. and this happens when we download unauthorized apps, giving access of gallery, contacts, audio, and video to third parties and hackers. Do you know you might be silently being watched by these mobile malware attackers? For all you know, they might send you the exact pop-up links that catch your attention because they track your likes and comments or if you spoke or wrote about it on the internet. A recent study conducted by collecting data from 850 organizations found out that every single organization faced mobile malware attacks. Moreover, 94% of security network analysts expected the mobile malware attacks to only increase with time.