Robert, a cloud architect, received a huge bill from the cloud service provider, which usually doesn't
happen. After analyzing the bill, he found that the cloud resource consumption was very high. He
then examined the cloud server and discovered that a malicious code was running on the server,
which was generating huge but harmless traffic from the server. This means that the server has been
compromised by an attacker with the sole intention to hurt the cloud customer financially. Which
attack is described in the above scenario?
B
D is the correct answer
From the text book itself:
Economic denial of service destroys the financial resources; in the worst case, this could lead to customer bankruptcy or other severe economic impact. If an attacker deploys a malicious service or executes malicious code on a cloud system that consumes a significant amount of computational power and storage from the cloud server, the legitimate account holder is liable for paying for such consumption unless the service provider finds the primary cause of CPU usage.