“The increase in connectivity and the digitization of the daily lives of both businesses and the general public will also lead to an exploitation of payment systems, IoT devices and the reformulation of our current perception of privacy,” Joshua Douglas, CTO of Raytheon|Websense, said in a statement. Researchers say attackers will use the attention given to political campaigns, platforms and candidates, as an opportunity to tailor social engineering lures. Others will focus on hacktivism, targeting candidates and social media platforms.