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Hackers Find Home In Amazon EC2 Cloud

Posted by CmdrTaco on 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."

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  1. Not Amazon that got hacked by Meshach · · Score: 3, Informative

    According to the article it was not Amazon itself that got hacked but an "unidentified website on Amazon's cloud" that got hacked. The hackers then used that website to get onto the cloud and execute code.

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  2. Re:And? by TooMuchToDo · · Score: 4, Informative

    Link next time. I had to waste 10 seconds googling =) http://rationalwiki.com/wiki/Poe's_Law