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TechInAfrica – An endpoint security leader, Sophos, has released a report showing that cybercriminals attacked cloud server honeypots within 52 seconds of honeypot going live in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
According to the report’s findings, cloud servers were hit by 13 attempted attacks per minute, per honeypots. These honeypots were placed in 10 of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers in the world, including in California, Frankfurt, Ireland, London, Mumbai, Ohio, Paris, Sao Paulo, Singapore, and Sydney for over a month (30 days).
For your information, honeypot is a system that is mimicking targets of cybercriminals. The system is meant for security researchers to better monitor behaviors of cybercriminals.
The report reveals that over 5 million attacks on the global network of honeypots within 30 days, showing how cyberattackers are automatically identifying weak open cloud buckets. If they manage to make an entry, organizations will possibly are vulnerable to data loss or breaches.
Matthew Boddy, The Security Specialist at Sophos explained: Cyber attacks on Cloud Honeypots, identify the threats organizations migrating to hybrid and all-cloud platforms face. The aggressive speed and scale of attacks on the honeypots show how relentlessly persistent cybercriminals are and indicate they are using botnets to target an organization’s cloud platforms. In some instances, it may be a human attacker, but regardless, companies need a security strategy to protect what they are putting into the cloud.”
Boddy added, “The issue of visibility and security in cloud platforms is a big business challenge, and with increased migration to the cloud, we see this continuing.”
Sophos is currently working on addressing security weaknesses in public clouds using Sophos Cloud Optix. The solution is leveraging artificial intelligence to identify and mitigate threats in cloud centers or infrastructures.
“Instead of inundating security teams with a massive number of undifferentiated alerts, Sophos Cloud Optix significantly minimizes alert fatigue by identifying what is truly meaningful and actionable. In addition, with visibility into cloud assets and workloads, IT security can have a far more accurate picture of their security posture that allows them to prioritize and proactively remediate the issues flagged in Sophos Cloud Optix,” said Ross McKerchar, CISO at Sophos.
Source: techtrendske.co.ke
