Wednesday, August 03, 2011

Malware hides behind DWORD formatted IP addresses

Internet users know what a domain name is, and many of them are aware of the fact that it is a "translation" of a dotted decimal IP address. But how many of them know that there are other formats that a domain name can be presented in?

This poorly known fact has occasionally been taken advantage of by cyber scammers and malware pushers, and another instance of this approach has recently been spotted by Zscaler researchers.



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