As more people want to work from home, businesses discover the benefits associated with consumer cloud services. Things like easy access regardless of location, lower costs, more available space, faster servers, and good organizational structure are extremely tempting to business owners and network managers everywhere.
However, there’s also a dark side of the coin – cybersecurity. While most cloud services have good security measures in place, users can still mess things up and allow unwanted access in their space. This leads to data breaches and leaks of confidential information that can damage a business’s reputation (maybe for good).
But it doesn’t have to be this way. As long as you are aware of the system’s weakness, you can take preventive measures. As such, we thought to discuss this situation from a hacker’s perspective – if we were to attack a cloud service, how would we go about it?
Phishing
It’s the oldest trick in the book, but it still works incredibly well! According to APWG’s Phishing Activity Trends Report for Q2 2020, in the first half of the year, there were over 146,000 phishing sites and 78% of them were using SSL protection!
Furthermore, ill-intended actors are still using phishing methods to attack webmail and Software-as-a- Service (SaaS) users.
The practice is simple – attackers send users emails that look official (coming from the WHO or a higher up) and embed a malicious link that leads to a similar looki ..
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