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A group of attackers managed to compromise 300,000 home and small-office wireless routers, altering their settings to use rogue DNS servers, according to Internet security research organization ...

Malware authors have hijacked DNS settings on vulnerable routers to redirect users to sites hosting Android malware.

In March, Internet security research organization Team Cymru reported that over 300,000 home routers had been compromised and had their DNS settings changed in a global attack campaign.