IDG Contributor Network: Major cloud is infested with malware, researchers say
Cloud repositories are actively supplying malware, according to computer experts. And problematically, it’s insidious and hard to find.
Hundreds of buckets have been undermined, says Xiaojing Liao, a graduate student at Georgia Tech who’s the lead author on a study that’s looking into the problem. Buckets are chunks of storage used in cloud operations.
It’s “challenging to find,” Georgia Tech writes in an article on its website. The problem being that the resulting malware is quick to “assemble from stored components that individually may not appear to be malicious.”
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