Pierluigi Paganini
August 02, 2024
Researchers warn of an attack vector in the DNS, called the Sitting Ducks, that exposes over a million domains to hackers’ takeover. Researchers from Eclypsium and Infoblox have identified an attack vector in the domain name system (DNS), dubbed the Sitting Ducks attack. Over a dozen Russian-linked cybercriminal groups exploited this attack technique to carry out […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 01, 2024
The China-linked threat actors Muddling Meerkat are manipulating DNS to probe networks globally since 2019. Infoblox researchers observed China-linked threat actors Muddling Meerkat using sophisticated DNS activities since 2019 to bypass traditional security measures and probe networks worldwide. The experts noticed a spike in activity observed in September 2023. The threat actors appear to have the capability […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 26, 2023
The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) addressed three denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerabilities in the DNS software suite BIND. The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) released security updates to address three denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerabilities in the DNS software suite BIND. The three issues, tracked as CVE-2023-2828, CVE-2023-2829 and CVE-2023-2911, are remotely exploitable. ISC states that the three flaws, rated […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 03, 2022
A vulnerability in the domain name system (DNS) component of the uClibc library impacts millions of IoT products. Nozomi Networks warns of a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-05-02, in the domain name system (DNS) component of the uClibc library which is used by a large number of IoT products. The flaw also affects DNS implementation of all versions of the uClibc-ng […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 09, 2021
A flaw in some DNS resolvers, tracked as TsuNAME, can allow attackers to launch DDoS attacks against authoritative DNS servers. Researchers at SIDN Labs (the R&D team of the registry for .nl domains), InternetNZ (the registry for .nz domains), and the Information Science Institute at the University of Southern California has discovered a vulnerability, named […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 14, 2020
Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday security updates for July 2020 addressed a 17-year-old wormable vulnerability for hijacking Microsoft Windows Server dubbed SigRed Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday addressed a 17-year-old wormable vulnerability for hijacking Microsoft Windows Server tracked CVE-2020-1350 and dubbed SigRed. The issue received a severity rating of 10.0 on the CVSS scale and affects Windows Server versions […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 08, 2019
DNA-testing startup Veritas Genetics disclosed a security breach that exposed customer information, but genetic information, health records are not affected. Veritas Genetics is a whole genome sequencing company that provides actionable insights for a healthier life and family, it offers whole-genome sequencing for $599. The company announced that it recently discovered authorized access to its customer-facing […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 25, 2019
Large-scale attacks are threatening the global Internet infrastructure, the alarm was launched by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). After an emergency meeting, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) confirmed that the global Internet infrastructure is facing large-scale attacks. ICANN warns of “an ongoing and significant risk” to key […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 17, 2018
The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) has issued security updates for BIND to address a high severity vulnerability that could cause DNS servers crash. The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) has rolled out security updates for BIND to address a high severity vulnerability that could be remotely exploited to crash DNS servers. The flaw discovered by Jayachandran […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 29, 2017
Siemens published a security advisory to confirm that four of the seven Dnsmasq vulnerabilities affect some of its SCALANCE products In October, Google security experts disclosed seven distinct vulnerabilities in the Dnsmasq software package. From the authorsâ website, âDnsmasq provides network infrastructure for small networks: DNS, DHCP, router advertisement and network boot.â In practice, the Dnsmasq code has been widely leveraged in […]
