Tag: dns

Expired domain led to SpamCannibal's blacklist eating the whole world

Post author By Martijn
Post date May 31, 2018
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The domain of the little-used SpamCannibal DNS blacklist had expired, resulting in it effectively listing every single IP address.
Read more on Virus Bulletin’s blog.

Tags blacklist, dns, dnsbl, spamcannibal, virus bulletin

Security

$150k in cryptocurrency stolen through combined BGP-DNS hijack

Post author By Martijn
Post date April 25, 2018
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A BGP hijack was used to take over some of Amazon’s DNS infrastructure, which was then used to serve a phishing site to users of the MyEtherWallet service.
Read more on Virus Bulletin’s blog.

Tags bgp, cryptocurrency, dns, myetherwallet, theft