Protecting your domains from unauthorized manipulation

DNS security extensions, such as DNSSEC, are used to authenticate your query responses and prevent cache poisoning. But it may be easier for an attacker to simply hack into your registrar account or other platform that has the ability to manipulate your domains, and hijack them.

Cybercriminals hack DNS provider to take over Brazilian bank

Shortly before this manuscript went to final review, news emerged via the 2017 Kaspersky Security Summit in St. Maarten of a sophisticated attack on a major Brazilian bank ,in which the attackers successfully hacked into the bank's DNS provider and then modified its DNS settings to take complete control over its traffic.

For a period of approximately five hours, they substituted a fake online-banking platform operated on servers they controlled, and they duped users into logging into them. The bank reportedly had $25,000,000,000 in assets and 5,000,000 customers worldwide.

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