DNSChanger - Cleaning Up 4 Million Infected Hosts<p><strong>By Kurt Baumgartner</strong></p><p><img src="https://threatpost.com/sites/default/files/kurt.jpg" alt="Kurt Baumgartner" title="Kurt Baumgartner" style="float: left;" border="0" height="100" width="100" />The FBI's "Operation Ghost Click" announcement in Nov 2011, involving the Rove Digital botnet delayed cleanup efforts that we <a href="http://www.securelist.com/en/blog/208193404/DNSChanger_Cleaning_Up_4_Million_Infected_Hosts" target="_blank">previously discussed</a>, continues to haunt both the internet networks and the mass media. A <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/adriankingsleyhughes/2012/04/23/fbi-disinfect-your-computer-or-risk-losing-internet-access-come-july/" target="_blank">Forbes article</a> and a <a href="http://techland.time.com/2012/04/23/dnschanger-fbi-warns-infected-computers-will-lose-web-email-access-in-july/" target="_blank">Times article</a> yesterday brought the apparition back to the front, with some claiming that the site offered by the DNSChanger Working Group is a new one, which it is not. The 2011 Operation being described, and the temporarily outsourced DNS server replacements and delayed cleanup, is the same. </p><p><a href="http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/dnschanger-cleaning-4-million-infected-hosts-042512" target="_blank">read more</a></p>
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DNSChanger - Cleaning Up 4 Million Infected Hosts
