WAAR report – Web Attacks continue to increase, especially those launched from Amazon servers

  • 13 October 2014
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By Pierluigi Paganini on October 13th, 2014
 


 

The WAAR report issued by Imperva states that Web Attacks increasingly launched from Amazon servers, the overall number of attacks is also increasing.

Cloud computing is considered an amazing opportunity for cybercrime, from the perspective of an attacher these powerful architectures have the necessary resources to conduct powerful attacks, and consider also that often the data archived in the cloud are poorly protected.
According to the latest WAAR report published by the security firm Imperva, titled “Web Application Attack Report” (WAAR), the number of Web application attacks is constantly growing in volume and duration, but the worrying news it that these attacks is increasingly being launched from cloud IaaS platforms.
Cybercriminals are increasingly exploiting IaaS services to run attacks, 20 percent of all known vulnerability (CVEs) exploitation attempts were originated from Amazon Web Services, in particular 10% of all SQL Injection attacks observed by Imperva originated from AWS servers
 
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Based on this thread what is Amazon doing to resolve this issue?? Amazon is one of the big boys they should be addressing this problem.

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