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Operation Ghost Click DNS servers to shut down in March
One of the more widespread malware efforts over the past few years was the DNSChanger scam, which installed a Trojan horse that would change the DNS server settings on affected computers to divert traffic to rogue servers.
The DNS system is essentially the Internet's phone book that allows your computer to resolve a URL to the IP address of the server that hosts its contents. By changing a computer so that it uses a rogue DNS server, the DNSChanger malware was thus able to redirect valid URLs (such as those for banking institutions) to malicious Web sites in order to steal personal information.
This malware effort was cross-platform, and was suspected to have affected millions of PC and Mac systems worldwide, over half a million of them being in the U.S. Overall it raked in millions of dollars for the thieves behind it, until last November when the FBI in cooperation with several foreign governments carried out Operation Ghost Click, arresting several alleged perpetrators and officially ending the scam.
One of the more widespread malware efforts over the past few years was the DNSChanger scam, which installed a Trojan horse that would change the DNS server settings on affected computers to divert traffic to rogue servers.
The DNS system is essentially the Internet's phone book that allows your computer to resolve a URL to the IP address of the server that hosts its contents. By changing a computer so that it uses a rogue DNS server, the DNSChanger malware was thus able to redirect valid URLs (such as those for banking institutions) to malicious Web sites in order to steal personal information.
This malware effort was cross-platform, and was suspected to have affected millions of PC and Mac systems worldwide, over half a million of them being in the U.S. Overall it raked in millions of dollars for the thieves behind it, until last November when the FBI in cooperation with several foreign governments carried out Operation Ghost Click, arresting several alleged perpetrators and officially ending the scam.
Story here: http://news.cnet.com...-down-in-march/
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