Domain Lenovo.com Hijacked Through DNS Adjustment

Attackers there yesterday managed to Lenovo.com hijack the DNS of the domain name to suit . Earlier this week, the attackers used the same technique in the Vietnamese Google website. In both cases Lizard Squad behind the DNS changes, as reported OpenDNS.

The Domain Name System (DNS) is similar to the directory and translates among other domain names into IP addresses. The DNS servers Lenovo.com and Google.com.vn change the attackers could then specify the IP addresses where the domain was pointing to. The IP address of the mail server could be modified so that emails for Lenovo.com found themselves at the attackers. In the case of Google.com.vn be the site for a Dutch IP address. Meanwhile, both websites are accessible again and the DNS changes undone.

On Twitter was the Malaysian Registrar WebNIC where both domain names are registered, then with the DNS adjustments in connection brought . IT journalist Brian Krebs reports that Webnic.cc via a command injection vulnerability has been hacked, leaving a rootkit could be uploaded. This rootkit would already have been removed. The website of WebNIC is still unreachable.