Root DNS Servers 0wned by Hackers
Posted by Michael on Wednesday September 17, 2003 @03:05AM
from the evil-but-not-microsoft dept.
Michael writes: In the largest ever attack of its kind, a mysterious hacker group calling itself “V3R1S1GN” has taken control of the nameservers at the root of the .COM and .NET top-level domains. On Monday, users who mistyped the names of popular Web sites were surprised to find a cryptic message from the hackers instead of an error message: “W3 4r3 V3r1s1gn 4nd w3 0wn th3 1nt3rn3t! 4ll y0ur d0m41ns 4r3 b3l0ng t0 us!”
Federal authorities are investigating but have not yet determined the source of the attack. “It’s probably the work of spammers,” said one source at the FBI. “This is similar to the crimes Zuccarini was arrested for earlier this year, but he at least had the decency to pay for his mistyped domain names.” While the servers are still corrupted, technical solutions are being deployed to minimize the effects of the attack.