Tech Companies Mull Strategies to Block Threat Groups From Abusing Platforms

As threat groups eye cloud storage, email and messaging platforms to leverage in their cyberattacks, technology providers are searching for new ways to step up their defense strategies so that they’re not just scrambling to shut down this abuse, but proactively preventing it in the first place.

For many years, threat groups have been leveraging legitimate services in all aspects of their cyberattacks - for command-and-control (C2) communication, payload delivery or data exfiltration, for instance. For victims, this abuse can …

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