Cloud Services Are Creating More Cyber-Risks For Telcos
Mobile Europe, Thursday, August 24,2023
Attackers are increasingly abusing cloud applications to deliver malware to telcos
Almost two-thirds (62%) of malware downloads in telecoms came from cloud apps compared to just over half (53%) in other industries. This comes at a time when telcos are increasingly moving workloads to the cloud. Abusing cloud apps for malware delivery enables attackers to evade security controls that rely primarily on domain block lists and URL filtering, or that do not inspect cloud traffic.
The findings were in the latest Threat Labs report from SASE firm Netskope. The average user in the telecom sector interacts with 24 different cloud apps per month, which is on par with other industries. The Microsoft apps OneDrive, Teams, SharePoint, and Outlook.com are all more popular in telecom, while the Google apps Drive and Gmail are all less popular.