This is a coordinated hacking. (Was Re: Need help in flushing DNS)

Thu Jun 20 19:57:12 UTC 2013

It seems there may be a need for some sort of 'dns-health' check out there that can be done in semi-realtime.

I ran a report for someone earlier today on a domain doing an xref against open resolver data searching for valid responses vs invalid ones.

Is this of value?  Does it need to be automated?

- Jared

On Jun 20, 2013, at 3:53 PM, jamie rishaw <j at arpa.com> wrote:

> This is most definitely a coordinated and planned attack.
> 
> And by 'attack' I mean hijacking of domain names.
> 
> I show as of this morning nearly fifty thousand domain names that appear
> suspicious.
> 
> I'm tempted to call uscentcom and/or related agencies (which agencies, who
> the hell knows, as ICE seems to have some sort of authority over domains
> (nearly two hundred fifty of them as I type this in COM alone and another
> thirty-some in NET).
> 
> Anyone credentialed (credentialed /n/., "I know you or know of you,")
> wanting data, e-mail me off-list for some TLD goodness.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Phil Fagan <philfagan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Agree'd in these "smaller" scenario's I just wonder if in a larger scale
>> scenario, whatever that might look like, if its necessary. Whereby many
>> organizations who provide "services" are effected. Perhaps the result of a
>> State led campaign ....topic for another day.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster at gmail.com
>>> wrote:
>> 
>>> I am betting that Netsol doesn't need any more "coordination" at the
>>> moment -- their phones are probably ringing off-the-hook. There are
>>> still ~400 domains still pointing to the ztomy NS:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ; <<>> DiG 9.7.3 <<>> @foohost parsonstech.com NS
>>> ; (1 server found)
>>> ;; global options: +cmd
>>> ;; Got answer:
>>> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 49064
>>> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
>>> 
>>> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
>>> ;parsonstech.com.        IN    NS
>>> 
>>> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
>>> parsonstech.com.    172800    IN    NS    ns2617.ztomy.com.
>>> parsonstech.com.    172800    IN    NS    ns1617.ztomy.com.
>>> 
>>> ;; Query time: 286 msec
>>> ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
>>> ;; WHEN: Thu Jun 20 19:16:25 2013
>>> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 81
>>> 
>>> - ferg
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Phil Fagan <philfagan at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I should caveat.....coordinate the "recovery" of.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Brandon Butterworth
>>>> <brandon at rd.bbc.co.uk>wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>>> Is there an organization that coordinates outages like this amongst
>>> the
>>>>>> industry?
>>>>> 
>>>>> No, usually they are surprise outages though Anonymous have tried
>>>>> coordinating a few
>>>>> 
>>>>> brandon
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> Phil Fagan
>>>> Denver, CO
>>>> 970-480-7618
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
>>> fergdawgster(at)gmail.com
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Phil Fagan
>> Denver, CO
>> 970-480-7618
>> 
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> -- 
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