DNS Poisoning Hits One of China's Biggest ISPs

**TNT Bot** · Aug 22, 2008, 03:00am

Support Code writes "ZDNet's Zero Day blog is reporting that a DNS server of one of China's largest ISPs has been poisoned to redirect typos to a malicious site rigged with drive-by exploits. The DNS poisoning attacks are affecting customers of China Netcom (CNC) and are using a malicious iFrame to launch exploits for known vulnerabilities in RealNetworks' RealPlayer, Adobe Flash Player and Microsoft Snapshot Viewer. In this interview with CNet, Dan Kaminsky confirms that attacks are definitely going on in the field."

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**APK** · 02:18pm

Yes, "yet another case" for the use of CUSTOM HOSTS FILES, or, a better DNS server, such as OpenDNS...

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Aug 22, 2008, 09:37pm	#2 (permalink) Re: DNS Poisoning Hits One of China's Biggest ISPs
APK Elite Member Posts: 368 Name: The Duke of URL Karma:	Yes, "yet another case" for the use of CUSTOM HOSTS FILES, or, a better DNS server, such as OpenDNS... http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?s...9&cid=24714271 APK __________________ "I'm Reese: Sgt. TechComVN38416, assigned to protect you - You've been TARGETTED FOR TERMINATION!" Last edited by APK; Aug 23, 2008 at 02:18pm.

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Aug 22, 2008, 03:00am	#1 (permalink) DNS Poisoning Hits One of China's Biggest ISPs
TNT Bot Elite Member Posts: 4,776 Karma:	Support Code writes "ZDNet's Zero Day blog is reporting that a DNS server of one of China's largest ISPs has been poisoned to redirect typos to a malicious site rigged with drive-by exploits. The DNS poisoning attacks are affecting customers of China Netcom (CNC) and are using a malicious iFrame to launch exploits for known vulnerabilities in RealNetworks' RealPlayer, Adobe Flash Player and Microsoft Snapshot Viewer. In this interview with CNet, Dan Kaminsky confirms that attacks are definitely going on in the field." Read more of this story at Slashdot. </img> More...