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Stories about: DNS hijacking

Comcast Domain Hijackers Indicted Three individuals were charged on November 19 for their role in an attack, which involved hijacking the comcast.net domain name and redirecting its traffic to a rogue website. According to the indictment, the defendants used social engineering in order to obtain information that facilitated their plans to alter the d... 21 November 2009 05:49 GMT Possible DNS Hack at Ireland's Largest ISP [UPDATED] Customers of Eircom, the largest Internet service provider in Ireland, experienced serious DNS slowdowns and weirdness over the weekend. Users from different parts of the country reported that trying to open legit URLs in browsers redirected them to advertising pages.Some of them suggested on forums that there were t... 15 July 2009 10:51 GMT DNS Poisoning Attack Against Major Brazilian ISP The broadband Internet service of NET Serviços de Comunicação (NET Communications Services), called NET Vírtua, was the target of unnamed attackers earlier this month. According to Brazilian media outlet Globo.com, NET's DNS cache has been poisoned to serve a banking trojan to Virtua ... 27 April 2009 06:35 GMT