@inproceedings{73551790edbe421fbbd5a59f883df26f,
title = "Cloud: A Platform to Launch Stealth Attacks",
abstract = "Cloud computing offers users scalable platforms and low resource cost. At the same time, the off-site location of the resources of this service model makes it more vulnerable to certain types of adversarial actions. Cloud computing has not only gained major user base, but also, it has the features that attackers can leverage to remain anonymous and stealth. With convenient access to data and technology, cloud has turned into an attack platform among other utilization. This paper reports our study to show that cyber attackers heavily abuse the public cloud platforms to setup their attack environments and launch stealth attacks. The paper first reviews types of attacks launched through cloud environment. It then reports case studies through which the processes of launching cyber attacks using clouds are demonstrated. We simulated various attacks using a virtualized environment, similar to cloud platforms, to identify the possible countermeasures from a defender's perspective, and thus to provide implications for the cloud service providers.",
keywords = "Attacker Mental Model, Cloud Abuse, Cloud Forensics, IaaS Cloud, Stealth Attack",
author = "Moitrayee Chatterjee and Prerit Datta and Faranak Abri and {Siami Namin}, Akbar and Jones, {Keith S.}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 IEEE.; 44th IEEE Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference, COMPSAC 2020 ; Conference date: 13-07-2020 Through 17-07-2020",
year = "2020",
month = jul,
doi = "10.1109/COMPSAC48688.2020.00-33",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings - 2020 IEEE 44th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference, COMPSAC 2020",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "1558--1563",
editor = "Chan, {W. K.} and Bill Claycomb and Hiroki Takakura and Ji-Jiang Yang and Yuuichi Teranishi and Dave Towey and Sergio Segura and Hossain Shahriar and Sorel Reisman and Ahamed, {Sheikh Iqbal}",
booktitle = "Proceedings - 2020 IEEE 44th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference, COMPSAC 2020",
}