New malvertising campaign infects home and small business routers

John Leonard
John Leonard
clock 15 December 2016 •
New malvertising campaign infects home and small business routers

New DNSchanger targets Chrome and gives attackers control over web traffic

A new campaign that infects internet routers with malware via malicious ads has been uncovered by researchers. The researchers, working at security vendor Proofpoint, have analysed the use of an improved...

To continue reading this article...

Join Computing

  • Unlimited access to real-time news, analysis and opinion from the technology industry
  • Receive important and breaking news in our daily newsletter
  • Be the first to hear about our events and awards programmes
  • Join live member only interviews with IT leaders at the ‘IT Lounge’; your chance to ask your burning tech questions and have them answered
  • Access to the Computing Delta hub providing market intelligence and research
  • Receive our members-only newsletter with exclusive opinion pieces from senior IT Leaders

Join now

 

Already a Computing member?

Login

John Leonard
Author spotlight

John Leonard

View profile
More from John Leonard

Keeping ransomware at bay - the basics

Sir Clive Sinclair dies at 81

More on Networks

Royal Navy reveals future vision based on autonomous technology
Government

Royal Navy reveals future vision based on autonomous technology

The concept imagery shows a massive flying drone station based in the stratosphere

Dev Kundaliya
clock 13 September 2021 • 3 min read
UK's proposed data and ICO reforms are surprisingly pro-regulation
Government

UK's proposed data and ICO reforms are surprisingly pro-regulation

There were concerns that reforms could damage privacy and undo the GDPR. Instead, it appears that the government wants to rebuild problem areas while maintaining personal protections

Tom Allen
Tom Allen
clock 10 September 2021 • 2 min read
Facing the challenge of re-designing planning in Northern Ireland
Government

Facing the challenge of re-designing planning in Northern Ireland

A shared infrastructure will speed delivery and make it easier to share data across Councils

Andrew Kerr & Ed Baker
clock 08 September 2021 • 3 min read