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Ruskie gang hijacks Microsoft network to push penis pills
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 01:36:36 -0500 (CDT)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/12/microsoft_ips_hijacked/ By Dan Goodin in San Francisco The Register 12th October 2010 For the past three weeks, internet addresses belonging to Microsoft have been used to route traffic to more than 1,000 fraudulent websites maintained by a notorious group of Russian criminals, publicly accessible internet data indicates. The 1,025 unique websites -- which include seizemed.com, yourrulers.com, and crashcoursecomputing.com -- push Viagra, Human Growth Hormone, and other pharmaceuticals though the Canadian Health&Care Mall. They use one of two IP addresses belonging to Microsoft to host their official domain name system servers, search results from Microsoft’s own servers show. The authoritative name servers have been hosted on the Microsoft addresses since at least September 22, according to Ronald F. Guilmette, a researcher who first uncovered the hijacking. The Register independently verified his findings with other security experts who specialize in DNS and the take-down of criminal websites and botnets. By examining results used with an internet lookup tool known as Dig, short for the Domain Information Groper, they were able to determine that 131.107.202.197 and 131.107.202.198 -- which are both registered to Microsoft - are housing dozens of DNS servers that help convert the pharmacy domain names into the numerical IP addresses that host the sites. The most likely explanation, they say, is that a machine on Microsoft's campus has been programmed to do so, probably after it became infected with malware. [...]
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