GoDaddy employees tricked in attack against cryptocurrency firms

By Deeba Ahmed Earlier this month, hackers targeted GoDaddy customers to modify the DNS settings of at least two cryptocurrency website. Here's what happened. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: GoDaddy employees tricked in attack against cryptocurrency firms...

SAD DNS — New Flaws Re-Enable DNS Cache Poisoning Attacks

A group of academics from the University of California and Tsinghua University has uncovered a series of critical security flaws that could lead to a revival of DNS cache poisoning attacks. Dubbed "SAD DNS attack" short for Side-channel AttackeD DNS, the technique makes it possible for a maliciou...

CVE-2019-3979

RouterOS versions 6.45.6 Stable, 6.44.5 Long-term, and below are vulnerable to a DNS unrelated data attack. The router adds all A records to its DNS cache even when the records are unrelated to the domain that was queried. Therefore, a remote attacker controlled DNS server can poison the router's...

CVE-2019-3979

RouterOS versions 6.45.6 Stable, 6.44.5 Long-term, and below are vulnerable to a DNS unrelated data attack. The router adds all A records to its DNS cache even when the records are unrelated to the domain that was queried. Therefore, a remote attacker controlled DNS server can poison the router's...

When "Customers" Attack DNS

Be real. A Communications Service Provider's CSP's customer will not use their home to attack the Domain Name System DNS. They might as well unplug from the Internet. Yet, customers get infected, CPEs get violated, and miscreants all over the Internet reflect attacks off CSP customers to attack...

Craigslist Back Online Following DNS Hijack

The popular classifieds website Craigslist is back online today following a DNS attack that forced it offline for several hours Sunday evening. According to a blogpost Sunday night by Craigslist’s CEO Jim Buckmaster, DNS records maintained at one of Craigslist’s domain registrars were compromised...

Internet Bug Bounty: TLS Virtual Host Confusion

I am a security researcher at INRIA Paris in team PROSECCO http://prosecco.inria.fr We have been investigating a new class of attacks against the deployment of TLS on the Web. The main idea behind these attacks is that when two servers host different domains but share the same certificate which...

New York Times, Twitter and Huffington Post Domains hijacked by Syrian Electronic Army

Media companies including the New York Times, Twitter and the Huffington Post has been unavailable since Tuesday after the external malicious attack by a group of hackers supporting Syrian President Bashar Assad. For the second time this month, the New York Times' website has gone down. "The New...

Go Daddy Sites Serve Up Ransomware Malware

Domain name registrar and website hosting provider Go Daddy is responding to a DNS attack targeting a "small number" of its hosted websites that one security firm said is enabling cyber criminals to spread ransomware. The DNS Domain Name System is what transfers host-names into IP addresses,...

Cyberwar between Israel and Turkish Hacker

Cyberwar between Israel and Turkish Hacker Turkish hacker "TurkGuvenligi" hijacked some 350 Israeli websites on Sunday evening, launching a Domain Name System DNS attack on at least seven high-profile websites including The Telegraph, Acer, National Geographic, UPS and Vodafone as well. Visitors ...

DNS Invalid Compression Denial Of Service

!/usr/bin/perl DNS Invalid Compression attack coded by sipher www.elitter.net History: elitter.net provides Free UNIX shells and receives its more than fair amount of DDoS's and DoS attacks. 1 lovely day someone targeted our DNS services and managed to bring the system to 100% CPU usage. Goal:...

Twitter Reveals More on DNS Attack

Attackers got their hands on a valid set of Twitter credentials and used them to compromise the DNS records. Read the full article. eWEEK...

Puerto Rico sites redirected in DNS attack

From CNet News Elinor Mills An attack on the main domain name system registrar in Puerto Rico led to the local Web sites of Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Coca-Cola, and other big companies being redirected for a few hours on Sunday to sites that were defaced, according to security firm Imperva. Those...

Use DNS spoofing in the LAN hung it-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Author: black lantern Black Mask） Source: Black Mask'blog Articles have been published inhack the X-Files2 0 0 6 1 0 period,reproduced please specify! DNS domain spoofing, believe that many friends have heard of it, but also often hear some XX large station was attacked by DNS spoofing attack,...

Некорректная работа с SSL-Сертификатами в Netscape

При установке SSL-сенаса Netscape проверяет принадлежность SSL-сертификата по IP адресу, а не по имени сервера. Таким образом можно "перехватить" данные если удасться провести атаку на DNS-сервер...