'Lurking malice' in cloud hosting services, study finds

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  1. hawki

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    "A study of 20 major cloud hosting services has found that as many as 10 percent of the repositories hosted by them had been compromised -- with several hundred of the "buckets" 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 malicious..."

    https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/10/161018193559.htm
     
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