Mobile malware that has been christened Roaming Mantis has been found to be hijacking DNS settings on routers and redirecting users to malicious websites leading to the installation of trojanised ...

Thousands of PCs worldwide may be unable to access the Internet beginning July 9 unless those machines are rid of the pernicious DNSChanger malware that first surfaced in 2007. The Federal Bureau of ...

Previously, on The Internet: millions of computers across the globe were infected by malware called DNS Changer. The software targeted both PCs and Macs, and redirected users away from websites to ...

Malware authors have hijacked DNS settings on vulnerable routers to redirect users to sites hosting Android malware. According to Kaspersky Labs telemetry data, these were small-scale attacks, as ...

Internet Service Providers have been informing malware infected users for weeks. July 9, 2012 — -- When the clock struck 12:01 a.m. ET today the FBI pulled the plug on the temporary Internet ...

The internet runs on protocols that most people never think about. DNS, the Domain Name System, is one of them. It quietly powers everything from checking your email to streaming your favorite show.

An Android trojan named Switcher (Trojan.AndroidOS.Switcher) targets Android devices in order to take over local WiFi routers and hijack the web traffic passing through them. Discovered by security ...

CHICAGO (CBS)-- A computer virus exposed by the FBI last year could affect your access to the Internet starting Monday. Agents arrested the people behind the virus in 2011. The malware was first ...

For the past three months, a cybercrime group has been hacking into home routers --mostly D-Link models-- to change DNS server settings and hijack traffic meant for legitimate sites and redirect it to ...