Security News > 2020 > February > High-risk vulnerabilities and public cloud-based attacks on the rise
2020-02-21 05:00
Web attacks originating from the public cloud saw a 16% spike from November to December 2019.
AWS was the top source of attacks, responsible for 94% of all web attacks coming from public clouds.
The Citrix bug accounted for 200,000 attacks detected, while the top attack vector in January accounted for over two billion attacks.
The reason these attacks pose an inflated risk is because a remote attacker can run malicious code to hijack the server and access its data.
Most attacks target sources within the same country.
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