In 2024 there are new ones cyber threats to defend against, which also come from the spread of artificial intelligence. The dangers come above all from vocal deepfakes and scams on charity initiatives: these are the threats in the report Security Bulletin written by Kaspersky.
Not just a prediction to warn users from dangers that exist on the webbut also a way to play in advance and learn to recognize the various online scams, which have become increasingly sophisticated and complex.
Never like this year, however, has the company’s report reported a worrying fact: future attacks by cyber criminals will be dominated by increasingly advanced technologies that they manage to leverage current trend taking less careful users by surprise. Let’s find out more about it.
Cyber threats coming in 2024
Among the main threats arriving in 2024, those related to charitable initiativesessentially due to the current geo-political situation increasingly complex.
According to the United Nations2023 was a particularly complicated year for humanity, with a higher number of armed conflicts than ever since the Second World War.
This situation combined with the “pandemic tail” that we are still experiencing, has created the ideal conditions for the proliferation of charity scams which will have a huge impact on cyber security in 2024.
Other significant data concern i giochi P2E (Play to Earn) which allow players to get paid in Bitcoin for in-game achievements.
Date, therefore, the “ease” of earning eh huge investments in this sector, it is clear that it can represent a great opportunity for cyber criminals.
Another of the growing trends concerns the growing diffusion of deepfake audiothanks also to the arrival of the new API OpenAI, Text-to-Speechcapable of generating a decidedly convincing human voice.
Also in this case it is evident how technology is giving a great hand to cyber criminals, providing them advanced tools specialize in creating decidedly believable artificial voices.
Finally, the last most worrying threat for 2024 is that linked to new film releases and those linked to the world of video game entertainment.
Highly anticipated films like “Dune: Part 2”, “Deadpool 3”, “Joker Madness at Deaux”, “Gladiator 2” and the new chapters of “Avatar”, offer the perfect input to publish sites where you can preview these films, naturally ending up in the cyber criminals’ network.
Likewise also the world of video games becomes fertile ground for computer scams and securities such as GTA VI (coming soon PS5, Xbox e Computer) could encourage the proliferation of “advantageous offers” to defraud users looking only for their favorite game.
What changes for users
Naturally, with the new year nothing will change regarding computer security for users who, as always, will have to pay maximum attention when they surf the web, trying to escape the increasingly sophisticated traps of cyber criminals.
At the same time, thanks to new technologies, i dangers will be increasingly greater and more and more credible, to the point of becoming extremely difficult to recognize.
In light of this, experts also predict a global growth for VPN which, as is well known, constitute safe channels for moving online without danger.
Clearly, the tools to defend yourself are there and can be easily used by anyone. However, it is always good to remember that the first thing to navigate safely is a good dose of critical spirit and the foresight not to provide under any circumstances personal data or information.