Cybersecurity trends 2017: malicious machine learning, state-sponsored attacks and ransomware

Cybersecurity was all over the news in 2016 – whether it was email breaches that compromised the Democrat campaign for the elections, or revelations towards the end of the year that planes were vulnerable to hacking through in-flight entertainment systems. The British government boasted that it had the capabilities to launch cybersecurity offensives and was committing a huge chunk of its budget to developing these further. Yahoo suffered from an attack that potentially gained access to 1 billion accounts, the largest known breach of all time. Vendors, hackers, banks, businesses, countries and shadowy state actors all seem locked in a perpetual game of cat and mouse – and highly sophisticated and organised malicious attackers seem to have the upper hand. According to the experts, here are some of the cybersecurity nightmares organisations will have to wrangle with in 2017.