Security News > 2020 > December > Wasabi cloud storage service knocked offline for hosting malware
Cloud storage provider Wasabi suffered an outage after a domain used for storage endpoints was suspended for hosting malware.
Wasabi is a cloud storage provider that competes with solutions like Amazon S3 by offering significantly cheaper services, not charging egress or API fees, and promising a 99.999999999% data durability.
This mishap led to the registrar suspending the domain, effectively knocking the storage service offline as almost all of their storage buckets utilize the wasabisys.com domain.
The domain's reinstatement took thirteen hours to complete, with it finally being restored today, at 12:57 PM EST. "Upon learning of the malicious content report, Wasabi did immediately suspend the associated customer account for terms of service violations. We also contacted the domain name registrar as soon as we identified the problem. However, despite our escalation attempts, it took over 13 hours for them to reactivate the wasabisys.com domain," Wasabi stated.
Threat actors are known to abuse legitimate cloud hosting services to host malware, and Wasabi is no exception.