Several Sites Defaced

Published: 2011-09-04. Last Updated: 2011-09-05 08:40:22 UTC
by Lorna Hutcheson (Version: 4)
8 comment(s)

3rd Update: Update with more details of the incident from The Register itself: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/05/dns_hijack_service_updated/ (thanks Alex)

2nd Update: The root problem appears to be mitigated now. However, many DNS servers now have bad results cached. Please flush the cache of your recursive DNS servers.

Host names and IP addresses to watch:

ns1.yumurtakabugu.com. or 68.68.21.195
ns2.yumurtakabugu.com. or 68.68.21.196
ns3.yumurtakabugu.com. or 68.68.21.197
ns4.yumurtakabugu.com. or 68.68.21.198
 

IP Address used as A record for affected domains: 68.68.20.116

In particular IP addresses may change at any time. Please keep watching them and remove from blocklist as appropriate.

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There have been several widespread defacements reported to us today.  It appears their DNS name server entries all point to the same thing as seen below:

ups.com.  85621 IN NS ns1.yumurtakabugu.com.
ups.com.  85621 IN NS ns2.yumurtakabugu.com.
ups.com.  85621 IN NS ns4.yumurtakabugu.com.
ups.com.  85621 IN NS ns3.yumurtakabugu.com.
 

Here are a few examples of the sites so far:

ups.com
theregister.co.uk
acer.com
telegraph.co.uk
betfair.com
vodafone.com
nationalgeographic.com

The one commonality is they all appear to be all registered via ascio.com

More details as we learn more.

 

UPDATE:  This IP is hosted by BlueMile.  We have contacted them and they are aware of the situation and working on it.

Keywords: defacement dns name servers
8 comment(s)

Comments

As of 5:25 pm CDT, CenturyLink/Qwest DNS servers 205.171.3.65 and 205.171.2.65 appear to be poisoned for ups.com, theregister.co.uk, acer.com = 68.68.20.BAD.
My machines using OpenDNS are seeing the proper addresses.

Paul

Sep 4th 2011
1 decade ago

At 1536 Pacific, Time Warner was also showing the 68.68.20.BAD for UPS and National Geographic

Ryan

Sep 4th 2011
1 decade ago

Perhaps this will provide a little DNSSEC motivation.

Dshield

Sep 5th 2011
1 decade ago

how would DNSSEC help? If your Registrar is hacked, what does DNSSEC have to do with it? That's all about validating records - but if the bad guys actually own the "true" records, they can do what they want can't they?

Jason

Sep 5th 2011
1 decade ago

Ok, sems to be a little confusion here.

I don't think the OP was suggesting the registry was hacked, as otherwise nobody would have 'good' records.

Consequently, DNSSEC would help this problem, as that's it's primary function.

Dom De Vitto

Sep 5th 2011
1 decade ago

Any chance they messed with:
Classicplatforms dot com?

I cannot get to them,
That's not normal.

Ol'Bud

Sep 5th 2011
1 decade ago

Please Never Mind the previous Comment;
I got to Classicplatforms

Ol'Bud

Sep 5th 2011
1 decade ago

The Register now writes that NatNames was actually hacked, http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/05/dns_hijack_service_updated/

"It appears that the turk­ish attack­ers man­aged to hack into the DNS panel of Net­Names using a SQL injec­tion and mod­ify the con­fig­u­ra­tion of arbi­trary sites, to use their own DNS (ns1​.yumur​tak​abugu​.com and ns2​.yumur​tak​abugu​.com) and redi­rect those web­sites to a defaced page."

Alex

Sep 5th 2011
1 decade ago

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