Kaspersky, the individual and business cybersecurity company, predicts that in 2025 attacks will grow to hijack data from industry and government databases, but also those aimed directly at individual devices.
In its recent report on the cybersecurity landscape for next year, it estimates that the blocking of information for extortion purposes (ransomware) will intensify and become more sophisticated. Attacks will no longer focus on desktops and laptops and will instead focus on users’ smartphones.
There is hard data that supports this review of the cyberattack scenario in 2025. In the last 12 months, only in Mexico, more than 158,000 attacks of ransomware. This figure represents 433 cases per day, each one previously studied by cybercriminals and with significant economic damages. Banking Trojans, intended to gain access to electronic accounts, totaled 85,000 attacks. There were also 4.4 million attacks of software malicious (malware), that is, 80 events per minute. The manufacturing, healthcare and government industries were hardest hit.
“Are malware opportunistic, they appear in very specific seasons such as shopping periods (examples are the Hot Sale or Buen Fin) or the holiday season, such as Christmas or summer,” explained María Isabel Manjarrez, security researcher for Latin America at Kaspersky. .
Predictions for the crimeware by 2025
Of the 11 scenarios foreseen in the predictions report of crimeware by 2024, 9 became a reality. In the most recent newsletter of predictions for 2025, they released new estimates in accordance with the current scenario. The most outstanding are five:
Increase in the activity of information thieves (stealers). Kaspersky predicts that cybercrime families will adapt to evade international efforts to dismantle them. Furthermore, as the attacks of ransomware are being successful, more actors will join.
Data poisoning. He ransomware will resort to modifying victims’ data or injecting invalid data into specific infrastructures, rather than simply encrypting them. With this “poisoning”, recovering the original files becomes difficult or impossible.
Strengthening with post-quantum cryptography. According to the firm, cybercriminals will begin to use quantum computer-proof technology to prevent hijacked data from being decrypted.
He ransomware as a service will increase. Some hackers stop actively trying to hijack information and instead provide tools for others to do so for a fee. Thanks to this, it is not necessary for a person to have extensive programming knowledge to affect a third individual. Adoption of that system will become more common in 2025.
Increase in attacks on central banks and initiatives Open Banking: Banks continue with their digitalization process and Latin America is in a slow process of adopting the digital economy. “This will make central banks an interesting target for cybercriminals. We expect the number of attacks targeting central banks and open banking APIs to increase significantly throughout the year,” the company said.
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