A rudimentary bot is infecting cloud servers with botnet malware. Specifically, the framework Hadoop used in cloud environments has been targeted. The attack is carried out by DemonBot, which is actively enslaving Hadoop clusters to carry out DDoS attacks based on UDP and TCP floods. These attacks reflect a greater trend in attacking the cloud, which experts predict will become increasingly common in the future.
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