Ten thousand Australians face web blackout

The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) warned Windows and Mac DNSChanger Trojan victims to remove the malware now or risk being cut off from the internet on 9 July 2012. According to the ACMA there are approximately 10,000 Australian internet users currently infected with this malware.

"DNSChanger infections currently constitute around half the infections reported through the AISI (Australian Internet Security Initiative). The ACMA started reporting DNSChanger data to AISI participants as soon as it was made available to us in November 2011," ACMA's e-security operations manager Bruce Matthews told CSO Australia.

The web blackout from July 9 will be enforced by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which is shutting down a number of web servers through which infected users' web request traffic has been travelling. It's shutting them down following an investigation into a sophisticated internet fraud ring which used the servers to manipulate people's web browsing.

Security company Sophos warned that even if people removed the malware, they could face issues accessing the internet if they had not also changed the DNS (Domain Name Server) settings on their computer.

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