Pharming Attack Targets Home Router DNS Settings

Pharming attacks are generally network-based intrusions where the ultimate goal is to redirect a victim’s web traffic to a hacker-controlled webserver, generally through a malicious modification of DNS settings. Some of these attacks, however, are starting to move to the web and have their...

DNS SOHO Router Pharming Attack Takes 300,000 Routers

More than 300,000 small office and home office routers, most in Europe and Asia, were compromised in a campaign that started in mid-December, continuing a rash of security incidents involving home and small business networking equipment. Researchers at Team Cymru published a report today on the...

Paper by Amit Klein (Trusteer): "PowerDNS Recursor DNS Cache Poisoning [pharming]"

Hello BugTraq Once again, a DNS cache poisoning against a popular DNS cache server. This time, it's PowerDNS the third most popular DNS server, servicing over 40 million users. The vendor coded several impressive security measures against DNS spoofing e.g. UDP source port randomization and spoofe...