Security News > 2022 > November > Threat actors extend attack techniques to new enterprise apps and services

The past few years have witnessed the rapid adoption of new cloud collaboration apps, cloud storage and services for employee productivity and external collaboration as organizations across the world have embraced new work patterns.

Threat actors have pivoted their attack toolkits to extend beyond email and the web browser to the new apps and services that enterprises have adopted.

Although many of these new tools have only been around for a few years, the report finds that malicious incidents against these new cloud-based apps and services already occur at 60% of the frequency with which they occur on email-based services, with some attacks, like those involving malware installed on an endpoint, occurring on cloud collaboration apps at 87% of the frequency with which they occur on email-based services.

Enterprises should be consolidating their security stack for more holistic and efficient threat protection, as well as leveraging managed services to support their security teams with scalable and flexible incident response capabilities.

They're only getting smarter: All types of attacks are getting more sophisticated, but this is especially the case for attacks against cloud collaboration apps and services.

This trend is especially concerning given the rapid rate of adoption of new cloud-based apps and services.

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https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2022/11/23/cyber-threats-rise/