Security News > 2020 > June > Boffins find that over nine out of ten 'ethical' hackers are being a bit naughty when it comes to cloud services

Infosec pros and hackers regularly abuse cloud service providers to conduct reconnaissance and attacks, despite efforts by cloud providers to limit such activity.

Of the 75 security professionals and hackers they spoke with as a part of a larger examination of attacker psychology, more than 93 per cent admitted to abusing cloud services to create attack environments and launch attacks.

Those using cloud services for offensive operations, the researchers say, have a common pattern.

"Individuals are less likely to try something on the cloud, if the cloud is asking for so much private information such as credit card, name, address, etc," he said.

"Therefore, the cloud providers offer some sort of basic computation power as 'free' with the hope that the potential customers become regular customers for their cloud platforms."

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