- Nov 5, 2011
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Google, Microsoft, PayPal, other Romanian sites hijacked by DNS hackers - topic here ..
Google, Microsoft, PayPal, other Romanian sites hijacked by DNS hackers : http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/11/google-microsoft-paypal-other-romanian-sites-hijacked-by-dns-hackers/
'Wednesday's incident appears to be one of several regional DNS attacks perpetrated in recent weeks. Last weekend the operators of Pakistan's shared registry system said a vulnerability in one of its systems caused several website addresses to be redirected for a few hours. Last month, Ireland's domain registry suffered an "unauthorized intrusion into the company’s systems" that affected DNS records for Google.ie and Yahoo.ie. The attack exploited vulnerabilities in the company's configuration of the Joomla content management system to upload malicious code that caused unauthorized DNS changes. DNS attacks have also hit Israel, according to a blog post from Bitdefender Labs, which didn't elaborate.
Kaspersky Lab Senior Security Researcher Stefan Tanase said Wednesday's attack could have been much worse. So far, all reports indicate visitors were redirected to a page that did little more than brag of the exploit and recognize fellow hackers. "Imagine how many accounts could have been compromised this morning if these websites were redirected to a phishing page, instead of a defacement page," he wrote.'
Google, Microsoft, PayPal, other Romanian sites hijacked by DNS hackers : http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/11/google-microsoft-paypal-other-romanian-sites-hijacked-by-dns-hackers/
'Wednesday's incident appears to be one of several regional DNS attacks perpetrated in recent weeks. Last weekend the operators of Pakistan's shared registry system said a vulnerability in one of its systems caused several website addresses to be redirected for a few hours. Last month, Ireland's domain registry suffered an "unauthorized intrusion into the company’s systems" that affected DNS records for Google.ie and Yahoo.ie. The attack exploited vulnerabilities in the company's configuration of the Joomla content management system to upload malicious code that caused unauthorized DNS changes. DNS attacks have also hit Israel, according to a blog post from Bitdefender Labs, which didn't elaborate.
Kaspersky Lab Senior Security Researcher Stefan Tanase said Wednesday's attack could have been much worse. So far, all reports indicate visitors were redirected to a page that did little more than brag of the exploit and recognize fellow hackers. "Imagine how many accounts could have been compromised this morning if these websites were redirected to a phishing page, instead of a defacement page," he wrote.'
Glad that I don't use .ro top sites such as Google, though I am a romanian.
