{"id":132853,"date":"2009-12-11T03:50:53","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T08:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lapcfixer.com\/blog\/?p=583"},"modified":"2009-12-11T03:50:53","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T08:50:53","slug":"hackers-use-amazon%e2%80%99s-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/132853","title":{"rendered":"Hackers Use Amazon\u2019s Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Security researchers for Amazon recently spotted the Zeus botnet running an unauthorized command and control center on the company&#8217;s EC2 cloud computing infrastructure. This is the first known time that Amazon Web Services&#8217; cloud infrastructure has been used for this type of illegal activity, according to onw of the security researchers in question. The hackers reportedly got onto Amazon&#8217;s infrastructure by first hacking into a Web site that Amazon&#8217;s servers hosted, and then installing their command and control infrastructure stealthily.<\/p>\n<p>The security company declined to say whose Web site was used to get onto Amazon&#8217;s cloud, but the Zeus software has now been removed. Zeus is a password-stealing botnet. Variants of this malware have been linked to over $100 million in bank fraud in the past year.<\/p>\n<p>In the past few years, law enforcement takedowns and bad publicity have made it more difficult for criminals to host their sneaky infrastructure through legitimate or even semi-legitimate datacenters, so they have been steadily moving to Web-based services. <em>Courtesy of infoworld.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security researchers for Amazon recently spotted the Zeus botnet running an unauthorized command and control center on the company&#8217;s EC2 cloud computing infrastructure. This is the first known time that Amazon Web Services&#8217; cloud infrastructure has been used for this type of illegal activity, according to onw of the security researchers in question. The hackers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}