CSP level attacks

•Guest hopping attack: An attacker will try get access to one virtual machine by penetrating another virtual machine hosted in the same hardware.
•SQL injection: It can be done  by injecting the SQL commands into the database of an application to crash the
     database.

 •Malicious Insider: In private cloud, its employee is granted access to the sensitive data of some or all customer administrators. Such privileges may expose information to security threats.
•Side channel attack: It occurs when an attacker places a malicious virtual machine on the same physical machine as the victim machine so that he can access all the confidential information on the victims machine.

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