IBM: 45 percent of cloud incidents studied by IBM X-Force IRIS were caused by an initial compromise of a vulnerable cloud-hosted application. Cloud applications require a cloud-specific design and can present vulnerabilities not found in traditional server-based applications. Threat actors are three times more likely to deploy ransomware into the cloud environment compared to any other type of malware. Threat actors realize that cloud environments are critical to business operations and shutting down an organizations environments can cause rapid harm on a large scale.”]
Source: https://securityintelligence.com/posts/how-threat-actors-are-adapting-to-the-cloud/