Hackers abuse Google Cloud Run in massive banking trojan campaign
Researchers in security are alerting us to instances of hackers misusing Google Cloud Run to spread large amounts of banking trojans, such as Astaroth, Mekotio, and Ousaban.
With Google Cloud Run, customers can manage workloads and launch front-end and back-end services, websites, and apps without having to worry about scaling or maintaining an infrastructure.
When Brazilian attackers began launching campaigns employing MSI installer files to distribute malware payloads in September 2023, Cisco Talos analysts noticed a sharp increase in the exploitation of Google's service for malware distribution.
According to the researchers' assessment, Google Cloud Run's affordability and capacity to get over conventional security restrictions read more Hackers abuse Google Cloud Run in massi...