A Google engineer has found clues that show that about one million computers with Windows operating system have been infected with malware that redirects the Internet users' browsing through intermediate servers (proxy).
Damian Mensch of Google, was conducting routine maintenance when he noticed an unusual traffic still being sent from strange links to the servers. Enlisted the help of experts in cybersecurity and found that these requests came from a group large group of PCs infected with malware proxy redirection.
The type of attack is not new, but the proportions it has taken this case in the same family of malware, it is "unusual," according to IDGNow.
The media giant has added a layer to detect and locate this redirects the attack, through which Internet users read on their screens "seems to have been infected."
"We hope to inform users about the redirection of traffic, we can help you update your antivirus and remove infections," noted Google in his blog.
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