Cyber criminals are exploiting US cloud hosting providers to deploy Command and Control servers for their malicious activities. Cyber criminals exploit compromised hosting account on cloud infrastructures or they set up accounts to conduct fraudulent activities. US is one of privileged countries to host malicious architecture due high availability and high availability. The attackers are improving the techniques of attacks making large use of obfuscation techniques and testing with care their security avoidance mechanisms making hard the detection of malicious activities hard. The trend is very concerning and cyber criminals with a reasonable effort will be able to target wide audience.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2013/06/cybercriminals-using-hijacked-cloud.html