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"Users involuntarily routed to Internet ads may well have harbored discontent with those businesses, even though the businesses were blameless." I have a hard
by codezero 15y ago
"Users involuntarily routed to Internet ads may well have harbored discontent with those businesses, even though the businesses were blameless."
I have a hard time believing the businesses were completely blameless, if they made little to no effort to vet the services they purchase. Chances are the prices were low enough for them not to ask many questions.
- tptacek 15y agoYou got modded down, but I don't see why; I think you raise an important point.
- bluedanieru 15y agoBased on the article I think this malware hijacks the DNS resolver of an infected machine, so that it will point to these rogue DNS servers and return bullshit results. An affected organization would be completely out of the loop.
- sanswork 15y agoI've been on the receiving end of this. Though maybe a different group. The attacker was redirecting users to my pages with their ads. All complaints were then directed to us. It's not a fun place to bein having to explain to a bunch of angry people that yes it's your site but it's not really your site.
- codezero 15y agoThanks for clarifying, I probably just don't quite understand how businesses went about being duped.
- bluedanieru 15y agoI don't think they were duped at all. From what I can tell from the article, this is malware pointing machines to a bogus DNS server, not businesses using a shady registrar. These is little an affected business could do about it. I'm not sure if sanswork is describing the same thing but he could be.