DNS Hijacking – Taking Over Top-Level Domains and Subdomains
TL;DR: On January 7, the Detectify security research team found that the .cd top-level domain (TLD) was about to be released for anyone to purchase and claimed …
DNS hijack
Detectify ethical hacker kept the country code domain .cd safe from potential attacks
NEW RESEARCH. On December 30, Fredrik Nordberg Almroth, security researcher and co-founder of Detectify – the Sweden-born cybersecurity company that offers a web vulnerability service powered by leading ethical hackers – found a vulnerability that left the country code top-level domain of the Democratic Republic of Congo, .cd, open to severe potential abuse. Fredrik bought a name server for .cd before any attacker could – by that preventing thousands of .cd domains from potentially being exploited. He reported the vulnerability and it was patched shortly after.