In summary, the main trends in the 2017’s cyberthreat landscape are:
- Complexity of attacks and sophistication of malicious actions in cyberspace continue to increase.
- Threat agent of all types have advanced in obfuscation, that is, hiding their trails.
- Malicious infrastructures continue their transformation towards multipurpose configurable functions including anonymization, encryption and detection evasion.
- Monetization of cybercrime is becoming the main motive of threat agents, in particular cyber-criminals. They take advantage of anonymity offered by the use digital currencies.
- State-sponsored actors are one of the most omnipresent malicious agents in cyberspace. They are a top concern of commercial and governmental defenders.
- Cyber-war is entering dynamically into the cyberspace creating increased concerns to critical infrastructure operators, especially in areas that suffer some sort of cyber crises.
- Skills and capabilities are the main concerns for organisations. The need for related training programmes and educational curricula remains almost unanswered.
All these trends are assessed and analysed by means of the content of the ENISA Threat Landscape 2017.
Web-based application with an interactive mapping of the cyber threat landscape: https://etl.enisa.europa.eu/#/