Wasabi cloud storage service knocked offline for hosting malware

guest · Dec 30, 2020

Wasabi cloud storage service knocked offline for hosting malware
December 29, 2020
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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.
Yesterday, at approximately 2:30 PM EST, Wasabi users suddenly found that they could no longer access their storage buckets [1, 2, 3] hosted on the wasabisys.com domain.

[...] status report. According to the status report, their domain registrar attempted to contact Wasabi about malicious content hosted on the wasabisys.com domain. When sending the abuse report, the registrar forwarded it to the wrong email, and Wasabi was never notified.
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"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. It is unknown what malicious content, or potentially false positives, triggered the domain's suspension.
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