Cloud Computing: Amazon and GoDaddy Rank as Top Malware Hosters

Grazed from Infosecurity-Magazine. Author: Editorial Staff.

The US is home to 44% of all malware hosted domestically. A new report from Solutionary shows that it hosts approximately five times more malware than the second-leading malware-hosting nation, Germany, which is responsible for just 9% of the world’s malware. "The information in this report will show our readers how widespread the malware problem truly is and how close it hits to home," said Solutionary SERT director of research, Rob Kraus, in announcing the research.

"We aren’t just talking about foreign espionage campaigns, APTs and breaches; many of these malicious activities are taking place within US borders." The rise of cloud computing and cloud services gives malware distributors fresh fuel: they are rapidly and widely adopting cloud computing, either via buying services directly or by compromising legitimate domains…

This trend is allowing distributors to quickly and cost-effectively develop sites and bring them online, as well as to avoid geographic blacklisting, by hiding behind the reputations of major hosting providers such as Amazon, GoDaddy and Google…

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