Hiding a phishing attack behind the AWS cloud

Criminals are slipping phishing emails past automated security scanners inside Amazon Web Services (AWS) to establish a launching pad for attacks. Scammers have latched onto the ability for people to use an AWS service to build and host web pages using WordPress or their own custom code. From there they can send phishing …

[monty75]

All the recent phishing emails I’ve received have come from a gmail address and point to content hosted on Google Drive. Most of them somehow manage to bypass Gmail’s spam filtering.

[Frank Zuiderduin]

That filtering is a joke.

In my book, anything from gmail, hotmail, etc. is suspect by definition. I don't see why AWS should be any different.

[Pascal Monett]

"we can't just block AWS"

No, you can't.

Watch me.

[Anonymous Coward]

checking url is bad advice when using outlook cloud shite

due to outlook cloud shite changing links to safelinks.protection.outlook.com giving users a false sense of this link is fine!!!!!.

fucking stupid cloud fuckers.

[razorfishsl]

Re: checking url is bad advice when using outlook cloud shite

Becasue MS is deliberately trying to destabilize the security market so they can insert their own business & user offering.

They have gone out of their way to try and subvert any companies security tools as regards web links and redirects into AZURE masked by cloudflare..

Theri latest offering "microsoft-authenticator" which goes live next month with all MS accounts requiring 2FA is a literal GPS dog collar up every users ass...

it includes full GPS & BLE geo-location... under the guise of "security", not just when you want to 2FA but CONTINUOUS

[razorfishsl]

And Azure

[emmawaston79]

Hello everyone, I'm a bachelor's student. My computer was attacked by the piiq virus, and now they want me to pay a ransom. I put avast on my computer to scan. But this virus isn't getting rid of right. Can someone tell me a way to get rid of it?