An Estonian company called Rove Digital was busted last November. Why? Because it was a front for the ad-fraud DNSChanger botnet. And ever since November, the USA’s FBI has been responsible for the substitute DNS servers designed to keep compromised computers from being disconnected (and causing support call chaos).Back in March, we wrote about the […]
The Fbi’s “Operation Ghost Click” announcement in Nov 2011, involving the Rove Digital botnet delayed cleanup efforts that we previously discussed, continues to haunt both the internet networks and the mass media. A Forbes article and a Times article yesterday brought the apparition back to the front, with some claiming that the site offered by […]
This week marks the third anniversary of the first in the wild samples of Conficker appearing on the internet. If you recall, Conficker is the most recent widespread network worm that began to spread to millions of unpatched PCs in 2008. The first samples detected at the virus testing service Virus Total were spotted in […]
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