Hackers Hijack ICANN And IANA’s Domains
The official domains of ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, and IANA, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority were hijacked earlier today, by the NetDevilz Turkish hacking group which also hijacked Photobucket domain on the 18th of June.
The domains that were hijacked are icann.net, icann.com, iana-servers.com, internetassignednumbersauthority.com, iana.com.
ICANN is responsible for the global coordination of the Internet’s system of unique identifiers. These include domain names, as well as the addresses used in a variety of Internet protocols. The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is responsible for the global coordination of the DNS Root, IP addressing, and other Internet protocol resources.
NetDevilz left the following message on all of the domains :
You think that you control the domains but you don’t! Everybody knows wrong. We control the domains including ICANN! Don’t you believe us? haha 🙂 (Lovable Turkish hackers group)
The hackers redirected visitors to Atspace.com (82.197.131.106) free hosting again. Atspace was used when during the Photobucket DNS hijacking. Since the NetDevilz hacking group declined to reveal how they did it, many consider cross-site scripting or cross-site request forgery vulnerability as the methods used to hijack domains.
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