DNS Hijacking Abuses Trust In Core Internet Service

Authors: Danny Adamitis, David Maynor, Warren Mercer, Matthew Olney and Paul Rascagneres. Update 4/18: A correction has been made to our research based on feedback from Packet Clearing House, we thank them for their assistance Preface This blog post discusses the technical details of a...

New DNS Hijacking Attacks

DNS hijacking isn't new, but this seems to be an attack of unprecedented scale: Researchers at Cisco's Talos security division on Wednesday revealed that a hacker group it's calling Sea Turtle carried out a broad campaign of espionage via DNS hijacking, hitting 40 different organizations. In the...

State-Sponsored DNS Hijacking Infiltrates 40 Firms Globally

A newly-discovered state-sponsored campaign is targeting national security organizations across the Middle East and North Africa MENA – and elsewhere – with domain name system DNS hijacking attacks, used to scoop up credentials. The campaign, dubbed “Sea Turtle” by the Cisco Talos researchers who...

Beers with Talos Ep. #51: Sea Turtles yeeting packets

Beers with Talos BWT Podcast Ep. No. 51 is now available. Download this episode and subscribe to Beers with Talos: If iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing, click here. Recorded April 12, 2019 — Today, we rip through a few other things to spend most of our time discussing Sea Turtle, the lates...

Cyberspies Hijacked the Internet Domains of Entire Countries

A mysterious new group called Sea Turtle targeted 40 organizations in a DNS hijacking spree...

Hackers Abuse Google Cloud Platform to Attack D-Link Routers

Hackers have been abusing Google’s cloud computing service to redirect and intercept web and mail traffic on an array of vulnerable consumer routers. A researcher said that he has seen the Google Cloud Platform being abused to carry out three separate waves of DNS hijacking attacks over the past...

Roaming Mantis, part IV

One year has passed since we published the first blogpost about the Roaming Mantis campaign on securelist.com, and this February we detected new activities by the group. This blogpost is follow up on our earlier reporting about the group with updates on their tools and tactics. Mobile config for...

CVE-2019-3777 Apps Manager unverified SSL certs in Cloud Controller proxy

Pivotal Application Service PAS, versions 2.2.x prior to 2.2.12, 2.3.x prior to 2.3.7 and 2.4.x prior to 2.4.3, contain apps manager that uses a cloud controller proxy that fails to verify SSL certs. A remote unauthenticated attacker that could hijack the Cloud Controller's DNS record could...

Mobile malware evolution 2018

The statistical data for this report came from all Kaspersky Lab mobile security solutions, not just Kaspersky Mobile Antivirus for Android. Consequently, the comparative data for 2017 may differ from the data for the same period published in the previous report. The analytical scope was expanded...

Details on Recent DNS Hijacking

At the end of January, the US Department of Homeland Security issued a warning regarding serious DNS hijacking attempts against US government domains. Brian Krebs wrote an excellent article detailing the attacks and their implications. Strongly recommended...

A Deep Dive on the Recent Widespread DNS Hijacking Attacks

The U.S. government -- along with a number of leading security companies -- recently warned about a series of highly complex and widespread attacks that allowed suspected Iranian hackers to siphon huge volumes of email passwords and other sensitive data from multiple governments and private...

DNS Infrastructure Hijacking Campaign

Summary The National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center NCCIC, part of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, is aware of a global Domain Name System DNS infrastructure hijacking campaign. Using compromised credentials, an attacker can modify the location to...

CVE-2019-7390

The CVE-2019-7390 issue affects D-Link DIR-823G devices with firmware 1.02B03. A flawed access control in /bin/goahead permits remote attackers to hijack the WLAN DNS service configuration via the SetWanSettings HNAP API without authentication, potentially impacting all clients on the WLAN. Docum...

Threatpost News Wrap Podcast For Jan. 25

Threatpost editors Tom Spring, Tara Seals and Lindsey O’Donnell discuss the biggest news from this week. That includes a rare “emergency directive” issued by the Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday, which warned that multiple government domains have been targeted by DNS hijacking attacks...

This Week in Security News: Ransomware and Cyber Threats

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about new routines for encryption of JobCrypter ransomware. Also, understand how Emotet has managed to evolve into one of the most...

CISA Releases Blog on Emergency Directive

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security DHS Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA Director Christopher Krebs, has released a blog, titled “Why CISA Issued Our First Emergency Directive,” to explain considerations in issuing Emergency Directive 19-01 on January 22, 2019. The...

U.S. Gov Issues Urgent Warning of DNS Hijacking Attacks

The Department of Homeland Security is ordering all federal agencies to urgently audit Domain Name System DNS security for their domains in the next 10 business days. The department’s rare “emergency directive,” issued Tuesday, warned that multiple government domains have been targeted by DNS...

DHS Orders U.S. Federal Agencies to Audit DNS Security for Their Domains

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security DHS has today issued an "emergency directive" to all federal agencies ordering IT staff to audit DNS records for their respective website domains, or other agency-managed domains, within next 10 business days. The emergency security alert came in the wake ...

'Unprecedented' DNS Hijacking Attacks Linked to Iran

A wave of DNS hijacking attacks targeting victims in North America, Europe, Middle East and North Africa have been linked to Iran. The attacks, which have been ongoing over the past two years, have had “a high degree of success” harvesting targets’ credentials, according to researchers. Researche...

DNS Infrastructure Hijacking Campaign

The National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center NCCIC, part of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, is aware of a global Domain Name System DNS infrastructure hijacking campaign. Using compromised credentials, an attacker can modify the location to which an...