The abuse of cloud services
The abuse of cloud services is about using the scale of the cloud provider’s resources and the multi-tenancy architecture to conduct malicious activities.
Some common examples of the abuse of cloud services are as follows:
- Using the cloud to deploy multiple servers and conducting DDoS attacks
- Using the cloud to deploy multiple expensive servers for crypto mining
- Using the cloud to spread email spam and phishing attacks
- Using the cloud for brute-force attacks on passwords
Common consequences of abuse of cloud services
Some common consequences of the abuse of cloud services are as follows:
- Misconfiguration (such as leaving resources publicly exposed on the internet), which could lead to massive data breaches and exfiltration of sensitive data (from customer- to business-related data)
- DDoS attacks use the mass resources that exist in the cloud, which could lead to loss of service availability to other customers...
