Imperva Discovers Emerging Attack Vector: Cloud Database Services as New Malware Platform. The report concludes that by bringing data one step closer to hackers, DBaaS makes it possible for hackers to compromise an organizations database without accessing its network ultimately increasing the risk of a data breach. Malware is now capable of connecting to both local and remote databases to retrieve, manipulate and exfiltrate information. Cloud databases are prone to attacks via both privilege escalation and exposed vulnerabilities, as opposed to on-premise databases, which are mostly compromised via privilege escalation.”]
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