#GOOGLE DRIVE SPAM ANDROID DOWNLOAD#

The rest, 9%, represented 198 other applications that cybercriminals used to spread malware through office documents. At the same time, Box was responsible for 3% of office documents carrying malware. Google Gmail service attributed to 4% of malicious office documents of all malware downloads. Sharepoint is infamous for its exploitable vulnerabilities, which cybercriminals have used to carry out malware, ransomware, and phishing attack campaigns.

#GOOGLE DRIVE SPAM ANDROID DOWNLOAD#

For years, attackers have abused OneDrive by creating accounts specifically for hosting malware or hijacking them from legitimate users.Īnother Microsoft product, Sharepoint, ranks third as victims used the application to download 15% of malicious office documents.

Microsoft OneDrive represents 19% of malicious office documents of all malware downloads. Google Drive recently added a banner warning users of possibly malicious files to deter people from downloading suspicious documents.

Google Drive overtook the top spot from Microsoft OneDrive, which led malicious office document download apps in 2020 with 34%. The research covers various office documents from all platforms such as Microsoft Office 365, Google Docs, PDFs, etc. The data is based on Netskope Threat Lab Cloud and Threat report, January 2022 Edition. Furthermore, 37% of all malware downloads are malicious office documents.

Widely used Google and Microsoft products often become attacker tools to spread malware because of the large userbase and trustable service, which convinces people to fall for hacker tricks more easily.Īccording to the data presented by the Atlas VPN team, users downloaded 50% of malicious office documents out of all malware from Google Drive in 2021. Cybercriminals take advantage of legitimate companies' applications to carry out attacks.

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