Last Saturday, California-based Web hosting company Intercage dropped off the Internet because its upstream provider PIE decided to terminate its services. All servers became unreachable as IP addresses were no longer routed to the Internet. They found a new upstream provider last Monday, after being offline for more than 36 hours. Traffic to and from…
Read MoreMore than a year ago, Trend Micro threat researchers uncovered a network of over 900 rogue DNS (Domain Name System) servers related to the ZLOB Trojan family. We gave examples showing that these rogue DNS servers are part of click fraud and leakage of personal information. Just recently, however, we discovered that this network is…
Read MoreWashington Post reports about new ZLOB variants that tinker with an infected user’s router to redirect legitimate URL requests to wholly different sites. Trend Micro researchers have obtained samples like these in the wild, TROJ_ZLOB.CCT and TROJ_ZLOB.CCS. They are different from past ZLOB variants (and even from the DNS-changing ZLOBs) because of the specific attempt…
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