The Ever-shifting Habits of Cloud-focused Malware Campaigns

Breaking Ground, 17:00 Wednesday Cloud-focused malware campaigns have continued to evolve as adoption of cloud technologies increases. After observing a shift away from solely targeting cloud compute resources, and on to serverless environments and ...

Breaking Ground, 17:00 Wednesday

Cloud-focused malware campaigns have continued to evolve as adoption of cloud technologies increases. After observing a shift away from solely targeting cloud compute resources, and on to serverless environments and containers, it’s clear that cloud services are an increasingly attractive target for malware campaigns pursuing a variety of objectives.

In this session, Matt will discuss analysis of recent cloud-focused malware campaigns, including those which have diversified from the common objective of cryptojacking. TTPs, including persistence mechanisms and defence evasion techniques specific to cloud environments will be discussed. Matt will also provide an overview of recent trends in proprietary telemetry of cloud attacks, including an increase in the use of cloud services themselves to support malware attacks.

Matt Muir