Cloud Weakness Exploited to Launch DDoS Attacks

July 28, 2014 | Attackers can target Amazon EC2 instances by exploiting a vulnerability in distributed search engine software, Computerworld is reporting. Researchers have found new variants of a Trojan program for Linux that launches denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks running on EC2 instances, and say the same attacks could happen in Microsoft Azure, Google Compute Engine and other cloud platforms. Computerworld