Netskope Research Finds Majority of Malware Now Delivered via Cloud Apps
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Feb 24, 2021 – Netskope, the leading security cloud, today revealed new research showing that the majority of all malware is now delivered via cloud applications, underscoring how attackers increasingly abuse popular cloud services to evade legacy security defenses putting enterprise data increasingly at risk.
The findings are part of the February 2021 Netskope Cloud and Threat Report, which analyzes the most interesting trends on enterprise cloud service and app use, web and cloud-enabled threats, and cloud data migrations and transfers.
“Cybercriminals increasingly abuse the most trusted and popular cloud apps, especially for cloud phishing and cloud malware delivery,” said Ray Canzanese, Threat Research Director at Netskope. “Enterprises using the cloud need to quickly modernize and extend their security architectures to understand data content and context for apps, c