A cybersecurity threat known as a sitting duck exploit is thought to be putting more than one million websites at risk of attack, according to threat intelligence analysts.
The fact that the attack methodology remains underreported could be the reason why Infoblox security researchers called the discovery of multiple hackers using the vulnerability across widespread cyber attacks eye-opening. Here’s what you need to know. The sitting duck cyber attacks are, Infoblox said, “easy to execute for actors, hard to detect for security teams.” To understand why you need to look at what vulnerability such an attack exploits. “The attack takes advantage of misconfigurations in the Domain Name System settings for an internet domain,” the threat intelligence analysts said, “specifically when the domain server points to the wrong authoritative name server.”
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Source: Forbes News
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