Sunday, March 8, 2015

Malicious DNS Servers Deliver Fareit

[f-secure.com] Last year we wrote about Fareit being massively spammed. A couple of months later, they added another means of infecting systems - via malicious DNS servers. When the DNS server settings has been changed to point to a malicious server used by Fareit, the unsuspecting user visiting common websites gets an alert saying "WARNING! Your Flash Player may be out of date. Please update to continue" . A "Flash Player Pro" download page will be shown pretending to be served from the …