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Massive Website Attacks Caused By Rogue Domains And Cybercrime Response

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The massive attack managed to inject the name of several rogue domains into hundreds of thousands of websites. The link led to a page that carried out a fake virus scan and then recommended fake security software to clean up what it supposedly found. But despite the huge success by the attackers, swift action by security firms looks to have limited the number of victims.

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