Communications of the ACM
Israeli Researchers Stop Cyberattacks with Discovery of Major DDoS Exploit
Researchers at Tel Aviv University and the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya have discovered a previously unknown Distributed Denial of Service exploit.
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Researchers at Tel Aviv University (TAU) and the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya discovered a previously unknown Distributed Denial of Service exploit.
The team suggested a vulnerability within the Domain Name System (DNS) may have been responsible for a massive 2016 breach that crippled Amazon, Reddit, Spotify, and Slack; the attack used more than 1 million Internet of Things devices.
The NXNSAttack involves an attacker infiltrating a DNS server and redirecting the resolver to send hundreds of thousands of requests to servers.
The researchers alerted Google, Microsoft, Cloudflare, Amazon, Oracle’s Dyn, Verisign, and Quad9 (a nonprofit operating a privacy-and-security-centric public DNS resolver), which updated their software.
TAU’s Afek said, "Our discovery has prevented major potential damage to Web services used by millions of users worldwide."
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