Over the past few years, the number of ransomware attacks has continued to increase alongside an evolution of tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) employed by threat actors to compromise a network. The latest development, ransomware attacks targeting cloud-based infrastructure.

Security researchers at Cybereason have notably observed ransomware variants that scan for cloud-based collaboration points. While the use of cloud services sometimes assuages organizations into believing they are more secure than they really are, the increasing use of shadow cloud IT is making it tougher for security teams to keep track of what they have to protect. Ultimately, according to researchers, “what we have seen to date is that in our rush to the cloud, the maturity of cloud configurations is typically not as secure as our historical on-prem data stores.” Read more at Cybereason.