Recruit, Dupe and Coerce: How Threat Actors Are Targeting Cloud Insiders

Over a decade of cloud migration has concentrated insider threat risk onto cloud providers—and threat actors are increasingly exploiting it. A single insider at a cloud provider can become the key to many organizations at once, making the human element of cybersecurity more consequential than ever.

This Intel 471 report, sourced from the Verity471 cyber intelligence platform, delivers a comprehensive look at how cybercriminals exploit, manipulate and recruit cloud insiders, and what organizations can do to reduce their exposure.

Inside this report, you'll find:

• The three insider types putting unified cloud environments at risk, negligent, manipulated and malicious and why most incidents aren't what organizations expect
• How credential theft, stealer malware, and the initial access broker ecosystem capitalize on careless employee behavior
• The social engineering tactics, including AITM phishing, MFA fatigue, and help desk impersonation, purpose-built to defeat the controls your employees rely on
• Real underground forum observations of threat actors actively recruiting insiders at major cloud providers
• Practical recommendations to harden your cloud identity posture and reduce insider risk

Intel 471's Verity471 platform gives security teams continuous visibility into the underground ecosystem from credential markets and phishing infrastructure to active recruitment efforts targeting your industry.