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Alice is a disgruntled employee. She decided to acquire critical information from her organization for financial benefit. To acccomplish this, Alice started running a virtual machine on the same physi

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Alice is a disgruntled employee. She decided to acquire critical information from her organization for financial benefit. To acccomplish this, Alice started running a virtual machine on the same physical host as her victim's virtual machine and took advantage of shared physical resources (processor cache) to steal data (cryptographic key/plain text secrets) from the victim machine. Identify the type of attack Alice is performing in the above scenario.

Options

  • ASide channel attack
  • BService hijacking
  • CSQL injection attack
  • DMan-in-the-cloud attack

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#side channel attack#cloud security#virtual machine#cryptographic key theft
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