Cybercriminals have made this week unforgettable for Amazon team this is after that security researchers have reported existing of Zeus Botnet at The cloud-based EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) control center.

The incident has been detected after a Password-stealing Zeus banking Trojan had infected client computers where hackers were able to compromise a site on EC2 and use it as their own command and control operation.

Methusela Cebrian Ferrer, senior researcher at CA, said in a blog post the following:

“The group behind this criminal activity is obviously doing it for financial gain – stealing both your identity and your money,” Ferrer stated. “In this variant, we have learned how cloud on-demand pay-as-you-use — offerings could be used to fuel such online cybercrimes.”

After this Incident Amazon should review their entire environment to be sure that they provide a minimum level of security for their customers.

We are also detecting a big concentration on the Cloud based solution in the last time. Moxie Marlinspike has started a new WiFi (WPA) password cracking service hosted in the cloud. Password cracking system is based on comparing the hash from a WiFi AP against 135 million possibilities in 40 min.

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