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7th December 2008, 03:01 | #1 |
Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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| New trojan in mass DNS hijack: Single box pollutes entire LAN Researchers have identified a new trojan that can tamper with a wide array of devices on a local network, an exploit that sends them to impostor websites even if they are hardened machines that are fully patched or run non-Windows operating systems. The malware is a new variant of the DNSChanger, a trojan that has long been known to change the domain name system settings of PCs and Macs alike. According to researchers with anti-virus provider McAfee's Avert Labs, the update allows a single infected machine to pollute the DNS settings of potentially hundreds of other devices running on the same local area network by undermining its dynamic host configuration protocol, or DHCP, which dynamically allocates IP addresses. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12...anger_hijacks/
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