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@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@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@gmail.com> wrote:
I should caveat.....coordinate the "recovery" of.
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Brandon Butterworth <brandon@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
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