HTTPS is not secure, botnets have infected millions of machines-viruses, Trojans-IT information

IT information news on May 17, in the past 2 years, a gang of cyber criminals has nearly 1 million computers infected with a virus, your search results will be hijacked by the virus, underlines the secure HTTPS channel, too.

HTTPS: full name: Hyper Text Transfer Protocol over Secure Socket Layer, is aimed at the security HTTP channel, simply put is the secure version of HTTP. Its role can be divided into two main types: one is to establish a channel for information security, to ensure data safety; another is confirmed the authenticity of the site, use HTTPS Web sites, are available by clicking on the address bar of the browser lock symbol to view site certification of factual information, or by CA security signature authority to query.

After the virus hijacked your computer when users search using a search engine, the virus will substitute a promotion linked to the search results, when user clicks on sponsored links and then, attackers will profit. The virus is very tricky, and it sometimes in order to camouflage itself will show normal search results, or even pretend takes too long to load due to network issues.

The virus called Redirector.Paco, has now infected more than 900,000 pieces of equipment, mainly for Algeria, and Brazil, and Greece, and Italy, and Malaysia, Pakistan and the United States to those countries.

HTTPS也不安全，僵尸网络已感染近百万台设备 - 病毒,木马 - IT资讯

IT资讯讯 5月17日消息，在过去的2年里，一伙网络犯罪分子已经使近100万台计算机感染病毒，计算机的搜索结果会被该病毒所挟持，就算在强调安全的HTTPS通道下也是如此。

HTTPS：全称：Hyper Text Transfer Protocol over Secure Socket Layer，是以安全为目标的HTTP通道，简单讲是HTTP的安全版。它的主要作用可以分为两种：一种是建立一个信息安全通道，来保证数据传输的安全；另一种就是确认网站的真实性，凡是使用了https的网站，都可以通过点击浏览器地址栏的锁头标志来查看网站认证之后的真实信息，也可以通过CA机构颁发的安全签章来查询。

该病毒在劫持了计算机之后，当用户在使用搜索引擎进行搜索时，病毒会用推广链接来替代原来的搜索结果，当用户点击推广链接后，攻击者就会因此获利。该病毒十分狡猾，它有时为了伪装自己会显示正常的搜索结果，甚至会装作由于网络问题导致加载时间过长。

该病毒名为Redirector.Paco，目前已经感染了90多万台设备，主要为阿尔及利亚、巴西、希腊、意大利、马来西亚、巴基斯坦和美国这些国家。