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ISC2 Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) Practice Question

While monitoring usage metrics in their Kubernetes cluster hosted on a public cloud, a DevOps team notices a sudden spike in CPU consumption from a newly deployed microservice. Further review shows the container image was pulled from an unverified public registry and is mining cryptocurrency for an external wallet. Which cloud-specific threat does this incident most clearly illustrate?

  • Exploitation of insecure cloud management APIs

  • Unauthorized resource hijacking of shared compute capacity

  • Hypervisor escape from a guest virtual machine

  • Residual data exposure due to storage media remanence

ISC2 Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP)
Cloud Platform & Infrastructure Security
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