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Safe Browsing Scam: From Amazon to Rackspace

From Amazon to Rackspace, these tech support scam campaigns keep taunting victims. Thousands of websites with fake warnings rely on scare tactics to drive leads (victims) into shady tech support call centres to extort their money. One of the best and most elusive affiliates to date has been wreaking havoc on Amazon Web Services (AWS) for several months using the Google Safe Browsing template and enjoying the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) The cloud infrastructure was perfect for a whack-a-mole game where thousands of domains and subdomains on quickly changing IP addresses leave security researchers frustrated.”]

Source: https://blog.malwarebytes.com/threat-analysis/2015/12/safebrowsing-scam-from-amazon-to-rackspace/

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