"Amazon is a hornet’s nest of malware"

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Amazon's cloud computing service plays host to some of the most prolific malware distributors on the Internet, security researchers have discovered.

Of the 10 sites that pump out malware most frequently, four are hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS) — including the number one site, download-instantly.com, according to a threat report published Wednesday by the IT security firm Solutionary.

The report comes a week after we learned that hackers allegedly used Amazon's cloud hosting solution as a platform for a botnet that scraped personal information from potentially millions of LinkedIn subscribers.

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I used to online shop frequently at Amazon.Doesn't surprise me though,the way things have been going lately.Thanks for the share a good bit of information to know.
 
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