Apple has updated XProtect, the native malware protection component in Mac OS X, to detect a new click fraud trojan that hijacks Google searches.The trojan was discovered at the beginning of August by security researchers from Finnish antivirus vendor F-Secure and it is distributed as a fake Flash Player update.Once ... |
10 August 2011
09:16 GMT |
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Security researchers from F-Secure have identified a new Mac OS X click fraud trojan which hijacks Google searches by inserting a rogue DNS entry into the hosts file.The trojan comes hidden as a Fake Player installer so it is probably distributed as part of a social engineering attack that asks users to update Flash ... |
1 August 2011
10:26 GMT |
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Security researchers warn that the TDSS rootkit has been updated with a self-propagation component capable of infecting removable media and performing DNS hijacking attacks.The TDSS family of rootkits, which is composed of several distinct versions and a lot of variants, dates back to 2008 and is one of the most soph... |
3 June 2011
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Security researchers warn that a malicious component distributed by an IM worm cripples antivirus systems and blocks access to many security-related websites.The attack begins with malicious links spammed on Windows Live Messenger leading users to rogue pages distributing the trojan dropper.According to BitDefender&#... |
15 April 2011
05:42 GMT |
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A hacker managed to hijack the DNS for google.com.bd and redirect the domain's traffic to a website under their control for a limited period of time on Saturday.Many Bangladeshi Internet users reported being taken to a page saying that Google Bangladesh was "OwN3D by TiGER-M@TE."According to TechCrunch, Google c... |
10 January 2011
02:57 GMT |
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Security researchers have identified an unusual piece of malware particularly designed to block several websites associated with The Pirate Bay and Mininova.The threat is dropped on people's computers by a trojan downloader from the Ponmocup family of malware, which runs as a file called update.exe.The Ponmocup ... |
25 November 2010
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Security researchers from Sophos warn of an unusual phishing attack targeting Commonwealth Bank customers, which makes use of a DNS hijacking trojan to steal login details.
The attack starts with spam emails abusing a real Commonwealth Bank email template, which includes the organization's logo, copyright notic... |
17 September 2010
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Reports coming in from China suggest that an ongoing phishing attack targeting Gmail users in the country might employ some form of DNS hijacking.According to New Tang Dynasty Television (NTDTV) [via Google Translate], when trying to access Google's email service by typing www.gmail.com into the browser address ... |
13 August 2010
05:25 GMT |
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Security researchers warn that various domains in the .gov space had their DNS hijacked and are hosting pages that redirect users to adult websites. The hijacking seems to be part of a scheme to push FLVDirect adware.Apparently, FLVDirect affiliates are abusing several government domains, including, but not limited t... |
16 July 2010
08:20 GMT |
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The most popular Web search engine in China, Baidu.com, was attacked by a group of hacktivists identifying themselves as the Iranian Cyber Army. The hackers hijacked the domain's DNS records and pointed it to a server under their control.Baidu is a Chinese search engine established in 2000. According to the Alex... |
12 January 2010
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Attackers identifying themselves as the "Iranian Cyber Army" succeeded in hijacking Twitter's DNS records late on Thursday. The twitter.com domain and several other subdomains were pointed to a Web page displaying a political message taunting the United States.The attack happened under the cover of night, at aro... |
18 December 2009
10:10 GMT |
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Three individuals were charged on November 19 for their role in an attack, which involved hijacking the comcast.net domain name and redirecting its traffic to a rogue website. According to the indictment, the defendants used social engineering in order to obtain information that facilitated their plans to alter the d... |
21 November 2009
05:49 GMT |
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Customers of Eircom, the largest Internet service provider in Ireland, experienced serious DNS slowdowns and weirdness over the weekend. Users from different parts of the country reported that trying to open legit URLs in browsers redirected them to advertising pages.Some of them suggested on forums that there were t... |
15 July 2009
10:51 GMT |
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The broadband Internet service of NET Serviços de Comunicação (NET Communications Services), called NET Vírtua, was the target of unnamed attackers earlier this month. According to Brazilian media outlet Globo.com, NET's DNS cache has been poisoned to serve a banking trojan to Virtua ... |
27 April 2009
06:35 GMT |
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