Hackers Find Home In Amazon EC2 Cloud 89
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from the don't-mind-us dept.
snydeq writes "Security researchers have spotted the Zeus botnet running an unauthorized command and control center on Amazon's EC2 cloud computing infrastructure. This marks the first time Amazon Web Services' cloud infrastructure has been used for this type of illegal activity, according to threat researcher Don DeBolt. The hackers got onto Amazon's infrastructure by hacking into a Web site hosted on Amazon's servers and then secretly installing their command and control infrastructure."
Re:If anything... (Score:1, Informative)
Not Amazon that got hacked (Score:4, Informative)
This is not new (Score:3, Informative)
If you search "Xbox Host booting" on YouTube, there are hundreds of videos showing you how to utilize the mass computing power of the cloud to knock your opponent off from a Halo 3 session and get the win.
Re:Nothing really special (Score:2, Informative)
According to the second article [ca.com], it has been fixed.
Re:Not Amazon that got hacked (Score:3, Informative)
According to the summary too: "The hackers got onto Amazon's infrastructure by hacking into a Web site hosted on Amazon's servers..."
No different than "a web site hosted on Rackspace's servers". I agree with the other posts that this is essentially a non-news item. So a server gets hacked. It doesn't matter that the server is in someone's basement or in a colo or a VM somewhere.
Re:And? (Score:5, Informative)