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Everything You Need to Know About DNS AttacksIt's important to understand DNS, potential attacks against it, and the tools and techniques required to defend DNS infrastructure. This report answers all the questions you were afraid to ask.
Domain Name Service (DNS) is a critical part of any organization's digital infrastructure, but it's also one of the least understood. DNS is designed to be invisible to business professionals, IT stakeholders, and many security professionals, but DNS's threat surface is large and widely targeted.
Attackers are causing a great deal of damage with an array of attacks such as denial of service, DNS cache poisoning, DNS hijackin, DNS tunneling, and DNS dangling. They are using DNS infrastructure to take control of inbound and outbound communications and preventing users from accessing the applications they are looking for. To stop attacks on DNS, security teams need to shore up the organization's security hygiene around DNS infrastructure, implement controls such as DNSSEC, and monitor DNS traffic
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12/15/2020 | 4:19:42 PM
I learned from it what happened and it jogged my memory: I had worked on a project years ago where the client was using Solar Winds. I reached out to the then project manager and he confirmed that they had just installed the new security patch AND their antivirus has already detected attempts to reinstall the hacked software components.
That means that the hackers have had plenty of time to shotgun multiple malware hacks onto their network in order to be able to re-establish their network compromises if some are detected & removed.
So, patched networks are likely far from fully recovered. Now begins the hard work of finding all the other compromises lurking in every nook & cranny, and probably playing wack-a-mole for a while until full integrity is restored.
Like teams already dealing with Covid need yet another source of stress around the holidays...