There’s an increased adoption of managed infrastructure services and the emergence of new cloud watering hole attacks, Accurics reveals.
Of all violations identified, 23 percent correspond to poorly configured managed service offerings – largely the result of default security profiles or configurations that offer excessive permissions.
Cloud environments most vulnerable to watering hole attack
As demonstrated by a recent high-profile hack, attackers increasingly strive to leverage weaknesses that enable them to deliver malware to end users, gain unauthorized access to production environments or their data, or completely compromise a target environment.