Securing Virtualised Environments: Understanding and Mitigating Live Migration Attacks
Live migration attacks target the transmission of VM data, exploiting vulnerabilities in the migration protocols or hypervisor configurations. Attackers can gain unauthorised access to VMs, inject malicious code, or disrupt the VM’s operation by interfering with the live migration traffic. These attacks can result in severe operational disruption, data breaches, and the compromise of VM images that contain confidential data.