Amazon and GoDaddy Rank as Top Malware Hosters
Infosecurity Magazine | January 27, 2014
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.