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Table 3 Class 3: Attacks originating from VMs

From: Classifying malware attacks in IaaS cloud environments

Source

Target

 

External Entity

Virtual machine

Cloud Provider

External Entity

-

-

-

Virtual Machine

Botnet

Net. spoofing/sniffing

Attacks on hypervisor

 

Spaming

DoS attacks

VM escape

 

Resource overuse

Side channel

Hypercall attack

 

Anti-VMI attack

Exploiting live migration (DoS)

DoS attacks

 

Split-personality

 

Exploiting live migration (DoS)

Cloud Provider

-

-

-