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Use of Rogue DNS Servers on Rise

An AP newswire article by Jordan Robertson, via MSNBC, reports that:

They're called "servers that lie."

Mendacious machines controlled by hackers that reroute Internet traffic from infected computers to fraudulent Web sites are increasingly being used to launch attacks, according to a paper published this week by researchers with the Georgia Institute of Technology and Google Inc.

The paper estimates roughly 68,000 servers on the Internet are returning malicious Domain Name System results, which means people with compromised computers are sometimes being directed to the wrong Web sites — and often have no idea.

posted by Fergie @ 2/13/2008 05:55:00 PM