An attacker has compromised a cloud environment of a company and used the employee information to perform an identity theft attack. Which type of attack is this?

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Options

• ACloud as a subject
• BCloud as a tool
• CCloud as an object
• DCloud as a service

• A
  91% (30)
• C
  6% (2)
• D
  3% (1)

Explanation

In cloud attack taxonomy, 'Cloud as a subject' refers to attacks where the cloud environment itself is compromised and its resources or data are used as the means to perpetrate a crime against others. Here, the attacker breached the cloud, extracted employee information, and used that data to commit identity theft - the cloud acted as the subject (source/vehicle) of the resulting crime. 'Cloud as an object' describes the cloud being the sole target of the attack (e.g., a DDoS against cloud infrastructure). 'Cloud as a tool' refers to using cloud resources to launch attacks against external targets. 'Cloud as a service' is not a standard attack classification.

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