Heimadal Security
JANUARY 10, 2024
Sea Turtle Turkish state-backed group changed to focus on internet service providers (ISPs), telcos, media, and Kurdish websites. DNS hijacking and traffic redirection that leads to man-in-the-middle attacks are among their cyber espionage techniques.
Security Boulevard
SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
Last month, a large Canadian telecommunications provider suffered a catastrophic outage for more than 18 hours. Many Canadians found themselves disconnected when cellular networks and the internet failed to respond—at home or at work. The post Why You Need a Secondary DNS appeared first on Security Boulevard.
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Krebs on Security
FEBRUARY 18, 2019
This post seeks to document the extent of those attacks, and traces the origins of this overwhelmingly successful cyber espionage campaign back to a cascading series of breaches at key Internet infrastructure providers. federal civilian agencies to secure the login credentials for their Internet domain records. That changed on Jan.
Security Affairs
MAY 1, 2024
Researchers at Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs discovered a new malware family, named Cuttlefish, which targets enterprise-grade and small office/home office (SOHO) routers to harvest public cloud authentication data from internet traffic. The malicious code can also perform DNS and HTTP hijacking within private IP spaces.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 23, 2019
DHS has issued a notice of a CISA emergency directive urging federal agencies of improving the security of government-managed domains (i.e.gov) to prevent DNS hijacking attacks. The notice was issued by the DHS and links the emergency directive Emergency Directive 19-01 titled “Mitigate DNS Infrastructure Tampering.”.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 10, 2020
In March 2020, The Ministry of Telecommunications (MoTC) issued a directive to all operators in Myanmar with a secret list of 230 sites to be blocked due to the nature of the content; adult content and fake news. Our findings show that both Telenor and MPT block websites using DNS tampering. Circumvention of Internet blocking.
Security Affairs
DECEMBER 24, 2019
Russia successfully disconnected from the internet. Russia’s government announced that it has successfully concluded a series of tests for its RuNet intranet aimed at country disconnection from the Internet. One of them is checking the integrity and security of the Internet as a result of external negative influences.”
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