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DNSChanger Trojan Still Running on Half of Fortune 500s, US Govt

By CircleID Reporter
  • February 02, 2012, 6:28 pm PST
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“More than two months after authorities shut down a massive Internet traffic hijacking scheme (link), the malicious software that powered the criminal network is still running on computers at half of the Fortune 500 companies, and on PCs at nearly 50 percent of all federal government agencies, new research shows,” reports Brian Krebs. ... “Internet Identity, a Tacoma, Wash. company that sells security services, found evidence of at least one DNSChanger infection in computers at half of all Fortune 500 firms, and 27 out of 55 major government entities.”

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