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 and some stuff shows up on these lists every year. The following are nine predictions from Kaspersky Lab\u2019s Global Research and Analysis Team.<\/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, 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 bring to my mind a second interesting possibility: that state-sponsored, advanced persistent threat hacking groups like we\u2019ve seen in cases DarkHotel, Regin and Crouching Yeti\/Energetic Bear will begin to merge with hacking campaigns perpetrated by criminals, like those targeting JP Morgan Chase, Target and others.<\/p>\n #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\n