The cloud services you rely on are no longer as secure as they used to be. Once seemingly a safe haven for data and applications, attackers are increasingly leveraging cloud services for command and control—and the Symantec Threat Hunter Team predicts an unnerving upshoot in 2025.
The Microsoft breach by Russian nation-state actors is one instance of many that show how even widely trusted cloud service providers (CSPs) can fall victim to targeted attacks. The implications of this rising trend are great, both for CSPs and for the SaaS systems and apps they host. Recent breaches, like those impacting Ticketmaster and Santander, underscore the fact that organizations are exposed to cascading risks in digital supply chains.
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Source: Symantec
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