Netskope, a security service edge provider, just published their new Cloud and Threat Report, which examines the past 12 months of malware downloads from the cloud and web.
In brief: Netskope’s new security report shows that there’s been a fivefold yearly increase in malicious PDF phishing downloads, with a lot of victims getting referred from search engines. Meanwhile, downloads of Microsoft Office files containing malware have returned to pre-Emotet levels. Netskope, a security service edge provider, just published their new Cloud and Threat Report, which examines the past 12 months of malware downloads from the cloud and web. Research shows that there’s been a 450 percent yearly increase in malicious PDF phishing downloads, with attackers using search engine optimization (SEO) techniques to improve the ranking of malicious PDF files on search engines such as Google and Bing.
