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751 domains hijacked to redirect visitors to exploit kit

14

Jul

2017

An unknown attacker has managed to modify the name servers assigned to 751 domains, which resulted in some visitors to the hijacked domains being redirected to a site hosting the Rig Exploit Kit and delivering the Neutrino Bot.

Category Cyber-crime Malware Written by Feedproxy 0 Comments

DNS record will help prevent unauthorized SSL certificates

12

Apr

2017

In a few months, publicly trusted certificate authorities will have to start honoring a special Domain Name System (DNS) record that allows domain owners to specify who is allowed to issue SSL certificates for their domains. The Certification Authority Authorization (CAA) DNS record became a standard in 2013 but didn’t have much of a real-world […]

Category Access control Written by Cio 0 Comments

DDos On Dyn Used Malicious TCP, UDP Traffic

27

Oct

2016

Domain Name Service (DNS) provider Dyn provided new details about the massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on Oct. 21 it suffered that disrupted major websites including Okta, CNN, Pinterest, Reddit, and Twitter, and confirmed that the infamous Mirai botnet was the main culprit. Scott Hilton, executive vice president of product for Dyn, in a blog […]

Category Network security Written by Darkreading 0 Comments

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