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GOOGLE DRIVE ACCOUNTED FOR THE MOST MALWARE DOWNLOADS IN 2021
NETSKOPE RESEARCH MALWARE DOWNLOADED VIA CLOUD APPS IS NOW MORE PREVALENT THAN
WEB-DELIVERED MALWARE
by: Bobby Hellard
12 Jan 2022
12 Jan 2022
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Google Drive accounted for the most malware downloads in 2021, taking the top
spot from Microsoft OneDrive.
The cloud storage service accounted for 37% of all malicious downloads last
year, according to the January edition of Netskope's Cloud and Threat report.
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Google Drive took the number one from Microsoft OneDrive, which fell to second
place with 20% of recorded malware downloads. Rounding out the top five were
SharePoint with 9%, Amazon S3 with 6% and GitHub with 3%.
IT Pro contacted Google, Microsoft and Amazon for comment but had not received a
response at the time of publication.
Netskope, a US-based cyber security provider, noted that cloud storage apps
gained even greater adoption in 2021, with 79% of customers analysed using at
least one cloud storage app, which is up from 71% in 2020. The number of cloud
storage apps in use also rose, with organisations with 500 to 2,000 employees
using 39 different cloud storage apps last year.
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What's more, cloud-delivered malware is now more prevalent than variants are
downloaded via the web. In 2021, cloud app malware accounted for 66% of all
malware downloads, up from 46% at the start of 2020.
Aside from its increasing popularity, there are other reasons why Drive
surpassed other services when it came to malware downloads, according to
Netskope. For example, the Emotet botnet that used Box to deliver malicious
Office document payloads was taken down early in 2021 but ended up inspiring
hackers to use Google Drive to share malicious Office documents.
"The increasing popularity of cloud apps has given rise to three types of abuse
described in this report: attackers trying to gain access to victim cloud apps,
attackers abusing cloud apps to deliver malware, and insiders using cloud apps
for data exfiltration," Netskope Threat Labs threat research director Ray
Canzanese said.
"The report serves as a reminder that the same apps that you use for legitimate
purposes will be attacked and abused. Locking down cloud apps can help to
prevent attackers from infiltrating them, while scanning for incoming threats
and outgoing data can help block malware downloads and data exfiltration."
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