Attribution of Economic Denial of Sustainability Attacks in Public Clouds
Mohammad Karami, An Wang, Songqing Chen · ICST Transactions on Security and Safety · 2018
The cloud pricing model leaves cloud consumers vulnerable to Economic Denial of Sustainability (EDoS) attacks. In this type of attacks, an adversary first identifies web resources with high levels of cloud resource consumption, and then uses a botnet of compromised hosts to make fraudulent requests