- So what is the future of malware in 2021-2022 and beyond?
What will be happening after?
Of course I don't know what will happen in the future,
but I can tell you some insights of what I see today.
So, with all the corona situation,
people start to work more at home.
They start to rely on credit cards and cash.
They don't want to use cash anymore.
There is a credit card everywhere, which means
that's growing a trend.
This will not go after the corona goes.
This will be a trend that people all use their credit cards.
They will all use online.
They'll all use delivery and so on,
which means that there will be
more and more bank intrusions.
The attackers will look at this as a huge opportunity
because so many people are using their credit cards.
They shop online.
They ask for delivery online.
They can take all those credit cards.
They can do lots of fraud.
Not only fraud on the credit card part,
but also any other user's account.
We have so many apps that we have
our payment information in,
and they can leverage these accounts,
your Amazon account, your PayPal account,
wherever the accounts that you're using,
to be able to use this credit card information.
They can buy different products on Amazon.
They can use it to forward some stuff.
They can find a way in.
So this is one thing that will be increasing so much.
Also in the little bit far future,
when the 5G is there,
there will be lots of different devices
and lots of IoT devices that connect the internet.
The smart devices at home, or even in the government level
like all the cameras, all the lights,
the traffic lights, so many different things
will be smart devices
and they will rely on the internet.
Which means that there will be way more malware
that is target towards the IoT devices.
There's actually a malware
that's completely open source now,
the whole source is leaked called Mirai,
which is for IoT, so this is something scary,
because they can leverage that for more souvenirs.
They can leverage that for ransomware.
Imagine it's not the ransomware that encrypts
just your files, it's something that locks
your washing machine.
It locks your coffee place.
It locks your microwave,
or it can actually do a harm to you or through any device
inside your home that connects the internet.
If they can reprogram it,
they can make it actually do something
that's really dangerous.
And because you are afraid of your kids and your spouse,
then you will need to pay ransom.
All this will make a big disaster.
Yeah, you can disconnect it from the whole power,
but at the same time, they can actually force you
to either abandon your fridge, for example,
or you have to pay them the ransom.
So there will be more of ransomware and surveillance,
because all of those devices can actually listen to you.
You have Google or Alexa
and they can hear you all the time.
You have different devices that can hear you,
they can listen to your audio, maybe record everything.
So there will be way more surveillance that can be used
through these devices.
So this is what, from my opinion, this is the thing
that will go more forward.
And if you want to learn more about IoT,
actually I have in my book,
the Mastering Malware Analysis book.
We are the only malware analysis book that actually
has a chapter that talks about IoT.
We do cover IoT in detail, and we do cover Linux,
IoT and we cover the assembly languages comes with them
and we do cover the threat landscape.
What are the malwares there?
What are their techniques?
What's their tactics?
And as well we cover different snippets of their code.
We cover the different assembly languages that are used
with them and we cover Mirai as an open source malware
that has been linked and has been used in different
variants from it.
So make sure that you grab your own book,
the Mastering Malware Analysis.
I think it's on Amazon
but you can find it in Google,
you can find the first 100 pages for free,
or on Google Books.
You can also get it from Target.
Sometimes they sell it through promotions, like $5
to get at least the book for the PDF.
Or you can take the free subscription and you can just
read the book in I think five, 10 days you can read some
parts from the book.
So make sure that you catch your copy
and see the next video, bye.