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Rising Tide of Web-Based Threats

By Brett Raybould, EMEA Solutions Architect, Menlo Security

According to Google, the average worker now spends three-quarters of their working day using a web
browser. This has provided many productivity benefits. Not least, it is enabling employees to work flexibly
as per their individual needs – from the office, from home, on the go, or outside of traditional working
hours. However, in a cyber sense, it has created concerns.

Within this new working dynamic, adversaries have placed a massive bullseye on the web browser. It
has become the new desktop, where many of us spend the bulk of our working day.

We are witnessing a massive shift in the attentions of attackers as they continually refine their techniques,
developing novel and innovative ways to target their victims via this new focal channel.

It’s a problematic situation that is not being helped by the emergence of ever more powerful tools,
including new generative AI platforms. Indeed, the ability of threat actors to find and develop ways to
launch ever more sophisticated attacks is ramping up – something that security professionals fear.
In a recent survey of 1,500 IT specialists, Blackberry found that 71% believe that foreign states are likely
to already be using ChatGPT for malicious purposes against other nations, for example.

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