Black Hat 2021: DNS loophole makes nation-state level spying as easy as registering a domain

From wiz.io

Today at Black Hat, Wiz CTO Ami Luttwak and I are presenting on a new class of vulnerabilities we discovered that exposes valuable dynamic DNS data from millions of endpoints worldwide. DNS (Domain Name Service) is one of the foundations of the Internet, an immensely complex and decentralized system that, at its core, translates readable domain names (like nytimes.com) to numerical IP addresses.

There’s a proud tradition of DNS research at Black Hat, most famously in 2008 when the late great Dan Kaminsky prevented Internet Armageddon by exposing some of its fundamental flaws. Generally speaking, DNS has become a lot safer since then. Still, DNS vulnerabilities are usually critical because they put billions of devices around the world at risk.

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