2008-07-07 06:27:00 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
Last week, the ICANN has issued an official statement regarding last month's DNS hijackings of some of their domains :"The DNS redirect was a result of an attack on ICANN's registrar's systems. A full, confidential, security report from that registrar has since been provided to ICANN with respect to this attack.
It would appear the attack was sophisticated, combining both social and technological techniques, but was also limited and focused. The redirect was noticed and corrected within 20 minutes; however it may have taken anywhere up to 48 hours for the redirect to be entirely removed from the Internet. ICANN is confident that the lessons learned and new security measures since introduced will ensure there is not a repeat of this situation in future."
They also mentioned that their Wordpress blog has also been a target of a recent attack automatically exploiting vulnerable Wordpres blogs :
"In a separate and unrelated incident a few days later, attackers used a very recent exploit in popular blogging software Wordpress to target the ICANN blog. The attack was noticed immediately and the blog taken offline while an analysis was run. That analysis pointed to an automated attack. The blogging software has since been patched and no wider impact (except the disappearance of the blog while the analysis was carried out) was noted."
Go through the complete coverage of the incident, the technical details regarding it, and the actionable intelligence obtained for the NetDevilz hacking group, in case you haven't done so already.
