Friday, August 22, 2014

Money-Mining Botnet Hiding In Amazon Cloud

How Hackers Hid a Money-Mining Botnet in Amazon’s Cloud | Threat Level | WIRED: "... At the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas next month Ragan and Salazar plan to reveal how they built a botnet using only free trials and freemium accounts on online application-hosting services—the kind coders use for development and testing to avoid having to buy their own servers and storage. The hacker duo used an automated process to generate unique email addresses and sign up for those free accounts en masse, assembling a cloud-based botnet of around a thousand computers...." (read more at link above)

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