DNS poisoning

Pierluigi Paganini December 29, 2025
Evasive Panda cyberespionage campaign uses DNS poisoning to install MgBot backdoor

China-linked APT Evasive Panda used DNS poisoning to deliver the MgBot backdoor in targeted cyber-espionage attacks in Türkiye, China, and India. Kaspersky researchers spotted the China-linked APT group Evasive Panda (aka Daggerfly, Bronze Highland, and StormBamboo) running a targeted cyber-espionage campaign using DNS poisoning to deliver the MgBot backdoor against victims in Türkiye, China, and […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 03, 2022
A DNS flaw impacts a library used by millions of IoT devices

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 July 02, 2018
Trezor users targeted by phishing attacks, experts blame DNS Poisoning or BGP Hijacking

The maintainers of the Trezor multi-cryptocurrency wallet service reported a phishing attack against some of its users that occurred during the weekend. I had some issues yesterday, when accessing your site. It seems to be related with DNS. Is https://t.co/wGje8x5lRN legit? — Carsten 🇹🇭 ⚡ (@CarstenBKK) July 1, 2018 The attack appears more complex respect […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 12, 2015
Exploiting DNS Poisoning in Brazilian Boleto Fraud Scheme

In recent months Brazilian criminal crews have started using DNS poisoning technique to target Brazilian Boletos. Security experts at RSA reported that DNS poisoning attacks are being used by cybercriminals to target Brazilian Boletos. What is Boleto? People in Brazil use popular payment method known as “Boleto” to purchase services and products by using vouchers instead […]