Cloudy with a Chance of Cyberattacks: Dangling Resources Abuse on Cloud Platforms

arXiv:2403.19368v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Recent works showed that it is feasible to hijack resources on cloud platforms. In such hijacks, attackers can take over released resources that belong to legitimate organizations. It was proposed that adversaries could abuse these resources to carry out attacks against customers of the hijacked services, e.g., through malware distribution. However, to date, no research has confirmed the existence of these attacks. We identify, for the first time, real-life hijacks of cloud resources. This yields …

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