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Resources provisioning on the cloud is problematic due to heterogeneous resources and diverse applications. The complexity of such tasks can be reduced with the aid of Machine Learning. Researchers have found, however, that machine learning poses new threats such as adversarial attacks. Based on our investigation, we found that adversarial ML can target resource provisioning systems (RPS) to perform distributed attacks. Our work proposes a fake trace generator (FTG), which can be wrapped around an adversary kernel to avoid detection by the RPS and to enable the adversary to get co-located with the victim’s virtual machine.
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Makrani, H.M., Sayadi, H., Nazari, N., Homayoun, H. (2022). Security Threats in Cloud Rooted from Machine Learning-Based Resource Provisioning Systems. In: Chang, SY., Bathen, L., Di Troia, F., Austin, T.H., Nelson, A.J. (eds) Silicon Valley Cybersecurity Conference. SVCC 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1536. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96057-5_2
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