Netskope has just published the Monthly Threat Report for February, with this month’s report focused on what is going on in Europe. I don’t intend to summarise the report in this blog, instead I want to zoom in and study a continuing trend that was highlighted in there; one that is unfortunately heading in the wrong direction.
The trend I am referring to is the shift from web hosting of malware (usually via compromised websites) to the hosting of malware in cloud apps (including popular collaboration and file sharing services). This approach has been a common method used for targeted attacks for some time. However, both globally and across Europe, we witnessed a milestone in December 2022. For the first time, cloud-hosted malware became the most promin