Variant of Trojan Able to Pollute LAN
A new variant on the “DNSChanger†Trojan malware has been spotted in the wild. What makes this one interesting is how it can pollute other devices on a LAN, even fully-patched or non-Windows systems. Follow the jump for more details.
A new variant on the “DNSChanger†Trojan malware has been spotted in the wild. What makes this one interesting is how it can pollute other devices on a LAN, even fully-patched or non-Windows systems. Follow the jump for more details.
According to researchers with anti-virus provider McAfee's Avert Labs, the update allows a single infected machine to pollute the DNS settings of potentially hundreds of other devices running on the same local area network by undermining its dynamic host configuration protocol, or DHCP, which dynamically allocates IP addresses.
