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Brazil is at the forefront of a new type of router attack

Avast: More than 180,000 routers in Brazil had their DNS settings changed in Q1 2019.

July 12, 2019 by Catalin Cimpanu

Hacker group has been hijacking DNS traffic on D-Link routers for three months

Other router models have also been targeted, such as ARG, DSLink, Secutech, and TOTOLINK.

April 4, 2019 by Catalin Cimpanu

Gigantic 100,000-strong botnet used to hijack traffic meant for Brazilian banks

Botnet redirects hijacked traffic to over 50 active phishing sites.

September 30, 2018 by Catalin Cimpanu

Attackers take advantage of Microsoft Windows BITS to serve malware

The BITS service is being exploited to both serve and reinfect target PCs.

June 9, 2016 by Charlie Osborne

DNSChanger: The disaster that wasn't

DNSChanger may have taken people offline, but seriously who would notice if you can't Tweet your woes?

July 9, 2012 by Larry Dignan

Telstra DNSChanger infections have almost halved

It's been about a month and a half since the temporary DNSChanger servers were cut from the internet, so how has Telstra's temporary redirect worked during that time?

August 26, 2012 by Michael Lee

Facebook begins notifying DNSChanger victims

Facebook is beginning to notify DNSChanger victims using the world's most popular social network.

June 5, 2012 by Dancho Danchev

Five reasons DNSChanger victims deserve to lose the internet

The FBI's shut-down of temporary DNS servers will rid the internet of those infected by DNSChanger, and it will be a better place because of it.

July 5, 2012 by Michael Lee

DNSChanger shutdown could knock thousands offline

The FBI's shutdown of Rove Digital servers, which host clean replacements for fraudulent DNS records, could leave hundreds of thousands of people unable to connect to the internet

July 5, 2012 by Jack Clark

DNSChanger to knock 350,000 users off Internet this July

The DNSChanger botnet is long dead, fixes for the malware have been around for months, but over 350,000 users still haven't fixed their computers or routers, so in July they'll be knocked off the Internet.

April 27, 2012 by Steven Vaughan-Nichols