Financial Services ISAC predicts 2024 increase in geopolitically motivated cyber attacks

The Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center is warning cyber defenders to be prepared for an increase in geopolitically motivated attacks on banks and financial institutions, in a recent report on 2023 cyber trends and predictions for 2024.

“Geopolitical events provide ideologically motivated hacktivists opportunities for disruption, as has been evident since the outbreak of the Russia/Ukraine and the Israel/Hamas wars,” FS-ISAC says in the March report.

“FS-ISAC expects hacktivism to increase in 2024 in response to those...