Tag: amazon

  • From Amazon to Emotet: a look at those phishing and malware emails that bypassed email security products

    This blog post was put together in collaboration with VB test engineers Adrian Luca and Ionuţ Răileanu. On this blog, we regularly look at those phishing and malware emails that we notice bypassing email security products in our test lab – something which they do at much a higher rate than ordinary spam emails. This…

  • From Amazon to Emotet: a look at those phishing and malware emails that bypassed email security products

    This blog post was put together in collaboration with VB test engineers Adrian Luca and Ionuţ Răileanu. On this blog, we regularly look at those phishing and malware emails that we notice bypassing email security products in our test lab – something which they do at much a higher rate than ordinary spam emails. This…

  • Banking malware hosted on Amazon’s cloud servers

    Trojan targets mostly Brazilian banks. Researchers have discovered malware hosted on Amazon Web Services that steals victims’ bank account data. Acting as a rootkit, the malware attempts to deactivate at least four different anti-virus programs as well as a special security application used by many Brazilian banks to protect their customers’ online banking accounts. The…

  • Botnets becoming more robust

    Zeus botnet used Amazon’s in-the-cloud service to control bots. New reports by MessageLabs and McAfee show that botherders have learned a lesson following the take-down of McColo in November last year . McColo was a rogue ISP that was taken down after security researchers gathered evidence of suspicious activities on the provider’s network, with the…