Market for public cloud services expected to grow to $210 billion by 2016, according to Gartner. Cloud services offer easy access to shared, elastically allocated computing resources. European Network and Information Securit Agency warns of cloud-based attacks. Volumetric attacks aim to overwhelm a network’s infrastructure with bandwidth-consuming requests. An attacker’s botnet can send out a DNS query of about 60 bytes to an open DNS resolver that will generate a response message sent to the victim of up to 4,000 bytes.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/how-cybercriminals-attack-the-cloud