New DDoS attack vector

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Posted by minor float on May 19

Dear list readers, on today we officially published our observations
regarding the new attack vector of the DDoS against the DNS servers.

A full story can be read here http://www.zone-h.org/news/id/4739

Here is the excerpt.

The attack phases are as follows:

The attacker obtains the IP address /?host­name of the tar­get DNS server.

The attacker updates the NS records of the pre-?registered domain foo
-domain?.com with the IP address…

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