DNS hack hits popular websites: Telegraph, Register, UPS, etc

[illumination]

Popular websites including The Register, The Daily Telegraph, UPS, and others have fallen victim to a DNS hack that has resulted in visitors being redirected to third-party webpages...
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[Jack]

According to Zone-H 186 have been affected by this attack : http://zone-h.org/archive/notifier=turkguvenligi.info
It could have been a major disaster for all the sites if the Turkish hacker group had set up a phishing page.
Among the hacked DNS was also a popular online betting site , http://www.betfair.com/ , needless to say that if Turkguvenligi would've setup a similar looking Betfair site , the site customers would not have know they were not logging into the official Betfair site and basically given to the attackers some valuable data.

 

[Deleted member 178]

it's happen too often...

 

[Jack]

Zone-H points out that all these websites have one thing in common: they all use Net­Names as their reg­is­trar.
"It appears that the Turk­ish attack­ers man­aged to hack into the DNS panel of Net­Names using a SQL injec­tion and mod­ify the con­fig­u­ra­tion of arbi­trary sites, to use their own DNS (ns1​.yumur​tak​abugu​.com and ns2​.yumur​tak​abugu​.com) and redi­rect those web­sites to a defaced page," said Kevin Fernandez.

 

[win7holic]

Turkish Hackers Strike Websites With DNS Hack

A Turkish hacking group managed to tamper with Internet addressing records over the weekend, redirecting dozens of websites belonging to companies including Microsoft, UPS, and Vodafone to a different web pages controlled by the hackers.

According to Zone-H, a website that tracks defacements, 186 websites were redirected to a page controlled by "Turkguvenligi." A message on the redirect page read: "4 Sept. We Turkguvenligi declare this day as World Hackers Day - Have fun h4ck y0u."

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[jamescv7]

Seems so many popular site were hacked by defacement even Microsoft sub domains also affected.