Host-Based Dos Attacks and Defense in the Cloud
Tianwei Zhang, Ruby B. Lee · 2017
We explore host-based DoS attacks, which exploit the shared computing resources in a multi-tenant cloud server to compromise the server's resource availability. We first present a set of attack techniques targeting different types of resources. We show such attacks can significantly affect the performance of co-located VMs, as well as the cloud provider's management services. Then we propose an attack strategy to compromise the availability of the entire datacenter. We show how power-aware optimization techniques can help the attacker achieve his goal faster, with low cost.