Blog

A selection of articles by the AttachmentScanner team

Changelog 2025-08-25

Platform Improvements
The API has been upgraded to improve processing and handling of request formatting, with enhanced security and performance improvements.
2025-08-25
AttachmentScanner Team

Changelog 2025-04-09

40k Plan Added to Self-Serve Plans
We've added a new 40,000 scans per month plan for self-service purchase. While we have a full range of plans available, we've made the 40k tier self-serve to simplify ordering. Need something different? We're here to help with custom plan requirements - just contact us.
2025-04-09
AttachmentScanner Team
Header Small Image Scanning an AWS S3 Bucket for Viruses, Malware & other Malicious Files

AWS S3 Antivirus Protection

In this article we discuss installing our serverless antivirus for AWS S3 in just a few clicks.
2021-07-26
AttachmentScanner Team
Header Small Image Upgrading the API TLS minumum version to TLSv1.2

API TLS encryption version upgrade

At AttachmentScanner security is a core part of what we do. We have supported TLS versions 1.2 and 1.3 for some time now. However, we've never actually stopped older clients from connecting to the AttachmentScanner Antivirus Clusters. We beleive that moving forward, it's best to prevent connections using older protocols.
2021-07-23
AttachmentScanner Team
Header Small Image What Is The Eicar File

What Is The Eicar File

A lot of our customers come to us because they've had a pen-test and one of the checks was "Test Upload of Malicious Files".
2020-05-07
AttachmentScanner Team
Header Small Image Making your first antivirus scan with AttachmentScanner

Making your first scan

Making your first antivirus/malware scan in Attachment Scanner was designed to be quick and easy.
2020-04-14
AttachmentScanner Team
Header Small Image Our Status Page is Now Live

Our Status Page is Now Live

At AttachmentScanner we pride ourselves on the service we provide. We've placed a lot of effort into both the scalability and uptime of our API and scanning service.
2020-04-12
AttachmentScanner Team
Header Small Image AttachmentScanner antivirus and malware API is going Live!

We're going Live!

We're pleased to announce that the AttachmentScanner antivirus and malware API is leaving beta and we're about to go live!
2020-04-08
AttachmentScanner Team