Barry Coatesworth, Director of Risk, Compliance and Security, Guidehouse
2021 was an unusual year. Cybercriminals took advantage of the global pandemic, the ongoing shift to hybrid working, and the vulnerability of organizations to ransomware saw one of the biggest increases in cybercrime activity.  For 2022, we can expect more of the same as ransomware will continue to evolve, and the sophistication of these extortion techniques’ criminals are using will improve. Also threat actors have been trying to recruit insiders to help them gain access to an organisations system to install malware. This combined with growing attacks against Operational Technology (OT) systems and critical infrastructure services, could result in serious disruption, potentially even endangering human life. 
So we will see increased use of Social engineering as well as consequences of improvements in deep fake technology which has allowed threat actors to bypass Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) and also illicit fraud by using faked audio.