CSO: Router malware: Fact or fiction?

Given that malicious software isn't always found locally on the machine itself, Ronald and Dylan Kaplan share how to pinpoint the characteristics of router malware

By Ronald Kaplan and Dylan Kaplan
Aug 28, 2014

Malware affecting a computer's operation is not always found in the computer itself. Just recently we encountered a common operational issue on several computers in our home network. Various browsers on different computers running different operating systems were intermittently redirecting webpages. The issue manifests itself by redirecting webpages to an unfamiliar merchant site.

The confluence of characteristics of the particular malware, cache history of a user, settings on a particular computer, and how the aberrant browser behavior manifests itself can result in the troubleshooting effort becoming a head-scratcher. Issues relating to webpage redirection are likely attributed to a spurious domain name services (DNS) server.

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