A new round of so-called pharming attacks is targeting the .com Internet domain, redirecting some Internet users who are looking for .com Web sites to Web pages controlled by the unknown attackers.

SAN JOSE — Following Deep Throat’s advice to “follow the money,” hackers today are committing fraud at alarming rates, using sophisticated, multilayered “pharming” botnets that point to the need for ...

A new exploit spotted by Trend Micro is designed to target small home and office (SOHO) routers, as well as consumer-grade home routers, by changing their internal domain name service (DNS) setting to ...

Catbird in early July launched its Anti-Pharming Suite, a set of services that employ the Deerfield, Ill.-based MSSP's network of globally distributed sensors to continually monitor customers' ...

The first instance of “drive-by pharming,” an attack based on changing the DNS settings in an insecure home router, has been identified by Symantec, which a year ago with Indiana University ...

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Cisco Systems Inc. has advised its customers that 77 of its routers are vulnerable to a new form of attack called drive-by pharming. Researchers at security company Symantec first warned users about ...

An attack this week that targeted online customers of at least 50 financial institutions in the U.S., Europe, and Asia-Pacific has been shut down, a security expert said Thursday. The attack was ...

Spam is nothing more than an attempt to bombard e-mail users with advertising for everything from mortgages to personal enhancement products. However, for spammers it’s not such a sweet deal in many ...

A new round of so-called “pharming” attacks is targeting the .com Internet domain, redirecting some Internet users who are looking for .com Web sites to Web pages controlled by the unknown attackers.

Drive-by pharming can occur because home router equipment is often left configured with default log-in and password information and never changed. “The attacks know what the defaults are,” Ramzan says ...