New DNS Name Server Hijack Attack Exposes Businesses, Government Agencies

Cloud security researchers from Wiz.io were poking around at Amazon Web Services’ Route53 Domain Name Service (DNS) earlier this year when they suddenly realized that its self-service domain registration system let them set up a new hosted zone with the same name as the real AWS name server it was using. Within seconds, they watched in shock as their phony name server got flooded with DNS queries from other AWS customers’ networks:

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