This is not fiction, 2 researches actually did it.
Moral of the story:
Cyberattacks might become more common
Security is still our problem not cloud provider's.
(From the article)
They used automatic tools and processes to spread a currency-mining botnet across some 150 popular free services that each generated about 25 cents a day -- all on the providers' electricity bill.
The bot was bult on free and fast tools including Mandrill and FreeDNS.afraid.org for email address registration, variations on public data breach databases, a custom program on Google App Engine, and the Python Fabric to manage scripts controlling the hundreds of cloud instances.
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