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Amazon Web Services Increasingly Used to Host Malware Security researchers warn that cybercriminals are increasingly abusing Amazon's Web Services (AWS) to host malware, particularly banking trojans and exploit kits.The use of free hosting services for malicious purposes is extremely common. We previously reported about spam, phishing and malware distribution pages...	2 August 2011 10:54 GMT

Banking Malware Hosted on Amazon's Cloud Security researchers from Kaspersky Lab have discovered a piece of Brazilian banking malware hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the cloud provider failed to respond in a timely manner. The malware installer was distributed from an account on Amazon's Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) as a .scr (screen s...	6 June 2011 07:10 GMT

My Opera Pages Used to Host Malware Security researchers from antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab warn that My Opera is being abused by hackers, after they found a botnet script hosted on its servers."There have been several reports about malware hosted on Mozilla and Google code servers. Now we also found malware hosted on My Opera community servers," Dmit...	24 September 2010 13:00 GMT

US Remains the Top Country for Hosting Malicious Sites and Sending Spam According to a mid-year report (PDF) from antivirus vendor Sophos, the United States remains the dominant country when it comes to hosting infected Web pages and relaying spam. Meanwhile, the Bredolab trojan is by far the top threat distributed via malicious emails.Data gathered by Sophos during the first six months ...	4 August 2010 11:07 GMT

AutoRun Malware Dominates the Threat Landscape in 2010 According to a report from BitDefender, malware which spreads by abusing the Windows AutoRun feature was the most prominent threat on the Internet during the first half of 2010. China and Russia topped the list of countries that host malicious programs.“While the second half of 2009 was undoubtedly dominated by...	15 July 2010 05:25 GMT

Number of Infected PDF Files on the Rise Avira reports that the number of PDF documents rigged with malware rose by 50 percent in May compared with the previous month. Data gathered by the company also reveals that .ru was the preferred country code TLD for hosting malware and that .br had the largest number of phishing websites. According to the German an...	17 June 2010 10:37 GMT

U.S. Hosts Over a Third of All Malware on the Internet According to a report recently released by security vendor Sophos, the United States hosted over 37% of the total amount of malware on the web in 2009. The prevalence of malicious programs hosted in China has significantly reduced during the past year, positioning the country in the third place after Russia.The top t...	3 February 2010 11:01 GMT

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