Cybersecurity Past, Present, and Future in 2020

Zscaler ThreatLabZ provides a year-end 2020 review that highlights notable threats observed across the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange: CMS compromises hosting Shade/Troldesh and other malware, cloud-hosted and social-engineering phishing campaigns, Joker-infected Android apps, e-commerce card skimmers, and Chinese APT31 activity; it also predicts rising breaches tied to remote work, ransomware treated as data breaches, targeted attacks on healthcare/pharma, ongoing fallout from supply-chain compromises like SolarWinds, and continued abuse of public cloud infrastructure in 2021.