ZeroFox’s The Future of Digital Threats report (February 2021) reviews 2020’s cybersecurity landscape, noting that despite global disruption, most attacks relied on old yet evolving methods like phishing, ransomware, and malware-as-a-service. The year saw the rise of double extortion ransomware, data leaks, and blurred attribution due to shared criminal tools. As remote work expanded, misconfigured cloud systems became key targets, while new vulnerabilities like Zerologon emerged without widespread exploitation. For 2021, ZeroFox predicted risks from orphaned remote infrastructure and renewed BIOS/UEFI hacking interest, urging stronger data encryption, cloud security, and proactive infrastructure decommissioning.

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