By making use of a technique called DNS poisoning, a cyberattacker managed to take down Samsung, Google, Gmail, YouTube, Yahoo, Apple, Linux, Microsoft and Hotmail websites, hosted on the .cd domain extension which belongs to the Democratic Republic of Congo. The hacker who calls himself AlpHaNiX managed to deface a... |
6 December 2011
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Brazilian internet service providers have fallen victim to a massive DNS poisoning attack, their account holders being redirected to malicious websites whenever they tried to access services like Youtube, Hotmail or Gmail. According to Kaspersky's SecureList, in some cases even company network devices were hit ... |
8 November 2011
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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
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Security researchers warn that a new variant of the infamous DNSChanger trojan has been detected in the wild. UDP broadcasting has been improved and anti-detection measures have been implemented. The DNSChanger family of trojans has a long history behind it, but while it is based on the same core concept, forcing th... |
17 March 2009
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UkrTeleGroup, a notorious ISP based in Ukraine, has been depeered by its uplink provider. In addition to the vast malicious activity originating from its address space, the ISP was also hosting the rogue DNS servers used by the Zlob (DNSChanger) family of trojans.Brian Krebs, journalist at The Washington Post, who al... |
31 January 2009
05:44 GMT |
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A new type of attack that compromises the DNS settings of networked computers is being used in a recent variant of an older trojan. According to malware analysts from Symantec, the trojan registers a new service on the infected systems that is able to serve fake DNS entries to DHCP clients on the network. Sever... |
5 December 2008
07:53 GMT |
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