Cloud-based services are vulnerable to attacks that seek to exploit the pay-as-you-go pricing model. A botnet could perform fraudulent resource consumption (FRC) by consuming the bandwidth of Web-based services, thereby increasing the cloud consumer's financial burden.
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Idziorek et al. (2012) studied this question.
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