{"id":12888,"date":"2021-03-04T03:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T03:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/03\/04\/cloud-based-email-threats-capitalized-on-chaos-of-covid-19\/"},"modified":"2021-03-04T03:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T03:30:00","slug":"cloud-based-email-threats-capitalized-on-chaos-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/03\/04\/cloud-based-email-threats-capitalized-on-chaos-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud-based Email Threats Capitalized on Chaos of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n                            <!--<a class=\"format-txt\" href=\"{baseURL}\/View\/{release.id}?_download=1\">View this article in .txt format<\/a>--><\/p>\n<p class=\"subheadline\">\n                               Trend Micro intercepted a surge in malware, phishing and credential theft                            <\/p>\n<p>HONG KONG SAR &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media OutReach<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; 4 March 2021 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/en_hk\/business.html\"\/> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/finance?q=TYO:4704\"\/>;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/us\/about-us\/investor-relations\/index.html\"\/>),&#13;<br \/>\nthe leader in cloud security, today revealed that it blocked 16.7 million&#13;<br \/>\nhigh-risk email threats that slipped past webmail providers&#8217; native filters.&#13;<br \/>\nThis amounts to an increase of nearly a third on 2019 figures.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>The new&#13;<br \/>\nstatistics are provided by Trend Micro&#8217;s Cloud App Security (CAS), an API-based&#13;<br \/>\nsolution that provides second-layer protection for Microsoft Exchange Online,&#13;<br \/>\nGmail, and a host of other services.<a name=\"_ednref1\" title=\"\">[i]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>To read&#13;<br \/>\nthe full <i>Trend Micro Cloud App Security Threat Report 2020, <\/i>please <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/vinfo\/hk\/security\/research-and-analysis\/threat-reports\/roundup\/trend-micro-cloud-app-security-threat-report-2020\">visit here<\/a><b>.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;COVID-19&#13;<br \/>\nforced many organizations to accelerate their digital adoption plans, and SaaS&#13;<br \/>\napps have become indispensable to remote workers. However, where there are&#13;<br \/>\nusers, there are also threats and we&#8217;ve seen a spike in attacks targeting&#13;<br \/>\norganizations&#8217; perceived weakest link during the pandemic,&#8221; said Tony Lee, Head&#13;<br \/>\nof Consulting at Trend Micro Hong Kong and Macau. &#8220;Trend Micro Cloud App Security has been indispensable&#13;<br \/>\nin providing an extra layer of protection &#8212; each one of those nearly 17 million&#13;<br \/>\nthreats previously missed represents a risk of corporate data theft, ransomware&#13;<br \/>\nand fraud.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Detections of&#13;<br \/>\nmalware, credential theft and phishing emails all recorded double-digit&#13;<br \/>\nyear-on-year increases in 2020, while BEC volumes dropped slightly.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>Malware-laden&#13;<br \/>\nemails: <\/b>Trend Micro&#13;<br \/>\ndetected 1.2 million emails containing malware that would otherwise have&#13;<br \/>\nappeared in users&#8217; inboxes, up 16% on 2019 figures. These included many Emotet&#13;<br \/>\nand Trickbot attacks which are often the precursor to targeted ransomware.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>Phishing: <\/b>Trend Micro intercepted over 6.9&#13;<br \/>\nmillion phishing emails in 2020, a 19% increase from the previous year.&#13;<br \/>\nDiscounting credential phishing, the number of threats in this category surged&#13;<br \/>\n41% over the period. COVID-19 was a common lure, as were big-name brands like&#13;<br \/>\nNetflix that have become popular during the pandemic. Attackers were typically&#13;<br \/>\nlooking for personal and financial information to monetize.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>Credential&#13;<br \/>\nphishing: <\/b>Trend Micro&#13;<br \/>\ndetected nearly 5.5 million attempts to steal users&#8217; credentials that were&#13;<br \/>\nallowed through by existing cloud native security filters. This was a 14% increase&#13;<br \/>\non 2019 and accounted for the vast majority of detected phishing emails.&#13;<br \/>\nAttackers are increasingly supplementing these with phone-based vishing&#13;<br \/>\nattacks.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>Business&#13;<br \/>\nemail compromise (BEC): <\/b>Although&#13;<br \/>\nBEC detections declined 18% year-on-year, average losses continue to rise &#8211;&#13;<br \/>\nincreasing 48% from the first to the second quarter of 2020.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Trend Micro&#13;<br \/>\nCloud App Security offers comprehensive multi-layered protection for platforms&#13;<br \/>\nsuch as Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace via:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Machine learning-powered Writing Style DNA to spot BEC <\/li>\n<li>Computer vision and AI for credential phishing detection<\/li>\n<li>Sandbox malware analysis<\/li>\n<li>Document exploit detection<\/li>\n<li>File, email, and web reputation technologies <\/li>\n<li>Data loss prevention (DLP)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Trend Micro&#13;<br \/>\nVision One, a comprehensive XDR solution providing investigation, detection,&#13;<br \/>\nand response across your endpoints, email, network, and servers.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<div><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n<hr align=\"left\" size=\"1\" width=\"33%\"\/>\n<div id=\"edn1\">\n<p><a name=\"_edn1\" title=\"\">[i]<\/a> It also protects various&#13;<br \/>\ncloud-based applications and services, including Microsoft 365, OneDrive for&#13;<br \/>\nBusiness, SharePoint Online, Google Drive, Box, Dropbox, and Salesforce.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/release.php\/View\/67403#Contact\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trend Micro intercepted a surge in malware, phishing and credential theft HONG KONG SAR &#8211;\u00a0Media OutReach\u00a0&#8211; 4 March 2021 &#8211; (;),&#13; the leader in cloud security, today revealed that it blocked 16.7 million&#13; high-risk email threats that slipped past webmail providers&#8217; native filters.&#13; This amounts to an increase of nearly a third on 2019 figures. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12888"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}