Weblog Just under two weeks ago, on July 8, a vulnerability disclosure was released warning of multiple DNS implementations being susceptible to yet another new DNS cache poisoning attack, but one professed to be far worse than previous attacks. Dan Kaminsky, in cooperation of with a large number of well-respected security and DNS experts, and […]
The website for the President of Georgia, a former Soviet republic, has come under DDoS (hat tip: Shadowserver team). This attack appears to have a political motivation. One of the messages in the floods (HTTP, SYN, ICMP) reads “win+love+in+Rusia”. Tensions between Russia and Georgia appear to be running high lately.
While I am not positive what […]
We got curious to see if there was an effect from the Internet scale DNS patching going on. Our Internet statistics system suggests … no.
Internet-wide DNS traffic, 1 week
Those spikes? We are pretty sure those are massive DNS attacks.
In short, we’re not seeing a significant change in DNS traffic from before the patching to after […]
We’ve all been aflutter over the past few days, wild with speculation as to the attack in this vulnerability note: Multiple DNS implementations vulnerable to cache poisoning (via CERT/CC). Disclosed on Tuesday (and patched by Microsoft in MS08-037, patched by BIND, by a whole host of vendors) the attack can lead to cache poisoning. Here’s […]
Spain went on to win Euro 2008, but after beating Russia last week 3-0, they came under a DDOS attack from a set of Black Energy botnets based in Argentina. The attacks lasted a few hours and didn’t seem to cause any substantial damage. There were no more attacks that we saw or identified following […]
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