14 DAY TRIAL // The Foundation for Internet Domain Registration in the Netherlands (SIDN) has been forced to shut down several of its websites and temporarily limit access to the domain name registration system due to a security breach.
According to a notice published by the organization on its website, pieces of malware were identified on Tuesday, July 9, on several websites.
“In order to prevent abuse, SIDN immediately took a number of precautionary measures: the DRS web application was shut down and zone file publication was temporarily suspended. As a result of our precautionary action, some areas of the website that registrars use to download registrarship-related data have been unavailable since Tuesday evening,” SIDN stated.
It’s believed the attack started when hackers exploited an SQL Injection vulnerability on 25jaarvan.nl.
SIDN is not the only registrar whose systems have been breached. Hackers have also defaced DNS.be, the organization that manages the .be top-level domain.
In a statement posted on its website, DNS.be explained that user data or the registration platform had not been compromised. The incident is still being investigated.