{"582794":{"#nid":"582794","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"\u201cLurking malice\u201d found in cloud hosting services","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA study of twenty major cloud hosting services has found that as many as 10 percent of the repositories hosted by them had been compromised \u0026mdash; with several hundred of the \u0026ldquo;buckets\u0026rdquo; actively providing malware. Such bad content could be challenging to find, however, because it can be rapidly assembled from stored components that individually may not appear to be\u0026nbsp;malicious.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo identify the bad content, researchers created a scanning tool that looks for features unique to the bad repositories, known as \u0026ldquo;Bars.\u0026rdquo; The features included certain types of redirection schemes and \u0026ldquo;gatekeeper\u0026rdquo; elements designed to protect the malware from scanners. Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Indiana University Bloomington and the University of California Santa Barbara conducted the\u0026nbsp;study.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Esays\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;that the research, believed to be the first systematic study of cloud-based malicious activity, will be presented 24 October at the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.sigsac.org\/ccs\/CCS2016\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EACM\u0026nbsp;Conference on Computer and Communications Security\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;in Vienna, Austria. The work was supported in part by the National Science\u0026nbsp;Foundation and involves ECE Professor Raheem Beyah and his Ph.D. student Xiaojing Liao.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2016-10-19 14:52:03","changed_gmt":"2016-10-19 14:52:03","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"scenes","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com\/dr20161019-lurking-malice-found-in-cloud-hosting-services?page=0,0","dateline":{"date":"2016-10-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-10-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}