Cloud computing is expected to be the technology of the future. This paradigm is considered to offer infinite resources and complete security, thanks to the application of modern techniques and the highly qualified personnel employed. Despite a highly skilled workforce, the cloud keeps busy; cybercriminals have successfully attacked the cloud. This work undertakes the study of threats that exist in cloud computing, the type of industries targeted by cybercriminals. Additionally, we conducted a detailed study on the targeted industries and the method used by cybercriminals to target these industries. This work will be extremely useful for researchers and businesses to know the type of cyberattack that is occurring in this newly evolved paradigm and to evolve new methods to counter them.KeywordsCyber ​​security, cloud attack, cybercrime, asset protection1 IntroductionThe Businesses and individual users outsource their services to the Web, instead of managing their own resources. Outsourcing technical resources allows the organization to focus on the business needs rather than the technical aspect, which is taken care of by the IT domain expert. To facilitate these users, a web-based paradigm known as cloud computing has emerged which offers the services on a utility model [p3]. The main objective of Cloud computing is to reduce operating costs, increase throughput, increase reliability and availability [p10]. To meet the wide variety of users, the cloud offers three types of services. These services include infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS) (Mell & Grance, 2011). In IaaS, users are offered computing capabilities such as pr...... middle of paper ......0]B. Hayes, Cloud computing, Communications of the ACM 51 (7) (2008).[p11] Andrzej Goscinski, Michael Brock. Towards dynamic, attribute-based publishing, discovery, and selection for cloud computing. Future Generation Computer Systems 26 (2010) 947-970[p12] Vaquero LM, Rodero-Merino L, Caceres J., Lindner M. A break in the clouds: towards a definition of clouds. In: ACMSIGCOMM, editor. Review of Computer Communications 2009. New York: ACM Press; 2009. p. 50–5. (for grid virtualization)[p13] Boss G, Malladi P, Quan D, Legregni L, Hall H. Cloud computing, 2009. http://www.ibm.com/developerswork/websphere/zones/hipods/ library. html. (for service types)Mell, P. & Grance, T. (2011), “The NIST definition of cloud computing”, Special Publication 800-145, National Institute of Standards and Technology, available at http://csrc. nist. gov/publications/PubsSPs.html#800-145.