New technique of localization a targeted Virtual Machine in a Cloud platform

Cloud computing gives another meaning to the word 'sharing' in the world of networks. However, it gives rise to serious security problems. One of the techniques used by the attackers is the 'Cloud cartography' which aims to locate a Virtual Machine in the cloud and launch a side channel attack. In this paper we propose a new technique for locating a virtual machine in a cloud environment. For this purpose, we will first trace the gateway of the cloud and then locate the target amongst the thousands of machines hosted in the cloud. Our attack is based on a new command TRACECL that can reach up to 100 routers, and we propose a method to locate the target Virtual Machine in a Cloud environment. © 2014 IEEE.