Virtualisation is hackers’ next target

Hackers are on their new mission of attacking Virtualisation, which is being adopted by the businesses at a rapid pace. The worrying fact is that not many businesses are aware of the risks or acting adequately to protect from the hackers, noted the market observers.

According to Ovum’s principal analyst Graham Titterington, threats to virtual machines are increasing significantly as virtualisation is getting more and more global prominence. While acknowledging that there was little evidence of foundation layers of virtualisation environment having been attacked yet, he said that strong possibility of attacks did exist and businesses needed to be extra vigilant.

Titterington added attackers could take down many virtual machines in a single attack with the help of virtualisation itself. If the hypervisor security of virtual machines, sharing same physical platform was broken, the information held on machines could also get attacked.

Titterington’ assessment was concurred by Symantec’s manager for systems engineering, Ronnie Ng, looking after Indonesia and Singapore operations. He remarked that although hypervisor breaches were rare, threat of compromising hypervisor layer was quite high, and it could put all virtual servers running business applications at risk.

Secure Computing’s managing director of Asia South, Benjamin Low stated that it would be just matter of time before hackers attack unprotected vulnerabilities of technology and warned that virtualisation could become next frontier for hackers’ attacks.

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