February 15, 2008

Rogue servers on the rise

Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Google have been working on a paper that looks into the rise of the rogue server; these are servers that reroute internet users whose computer has been infected to websites whose sole intention is that of fraud.

These servers which are known as servers that lie, are or the increase in fact the paper estimates that there could be around 68,000 working on the internet at the moment. How it works is simple, in fact it is too simple, a user with an infected computer goes to Google, but in this case the page that appears looks and acts like Google, but in fact the site either has malicious code written into to it or the ads steal money away from the original site.

This is a very serious matter, which costs companies and individuals a lot of money and hassle through fooling internet users that they are visiting a normal site that they feel safe with.

Source [Physorg]