Security News > 2021 > March > Cybercriminals continue to target trusted cloud apps

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, a Netskope research reveals.

"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, cloud services, and web user activity."

In 2020, the number of cloud apps in use per organization increased 20%. Organizations with 500 - 2,000 employees now use on average 664 distinct cloud apps per month.

Enterprise cloud apps popularity makes them a target for phishing attacks.

Cloud apps are now the target of 36% of phishing campaigns.

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