Deepfakes, ransomware attacks causes of concern: Report

Bengaluru: Deepfakes, threats of ransomware on cloud infrastructure holding huge amounts of data, and an uptick in web skimmers with self-deleting code capabilities will be the main areas of concern for cybersecurity experts this year, according to the threat predictions by enterprise security platform Sequrite.

Deepfakes basically take a person in an existing image or video and replace them with someone else’s likeness using artificial neural networks.They often combine and superimpose existing media onto source media using machine learning techniques.

According to the report, the evolution in ransomware attack strategies, resulting in complex attacks on cloud infrastructure, as opposed to individual users and devices is a huge possibility. A successful breach could result in massive amount of data being compromised.