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Cybercriminals Add New Component to Sality to Hijack the DNS Addresses of Routers

03
Apr
2014

The notorious piece of malware known as Sality has been around since at least 2003. However, over the past months, its developers have started adding new functionality, namely a component thats designed to hijack the primary DNS address of routers.

Security researchers from ESET have been analyzing this new component, which was first seen at the end of October 2013. The threat, dubbed Win32/RBrute, was first spotted by experts from Russian security company Dr. Web.

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