Advances, Systems and Applications
From: Handling compromised components in an IaaS cloud installation
 | Incident description |
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Incident type | Inappropriate Usage |
Current status | Ongoing attack, the bogus compute worker is still up and serving a part of requests |
Physical Location | OpenStack-5 |
Affected Layers | Cloud platform layer, the OpenStack nova-compute service, consumers’ instances |
General Information | A bogus compute worker node is added to the platform, it is a threat to the provider’s and consumers’ data confidentiality and integrity. Also a threat for the system availability. |
Resources at risk | Running instances on OpenStack-5, Stakeholders and resources interacting with running instance on OpenStack-5 |