国产精品99一区二区三_免费中文日韩_国产在线精品一区二区_日本成人手机在线

California cyber security firm unveils research results of Amazon DNS server hijack

Source: Xinhua| 2018-05-18 07:50:55|Editor: Chengcheng
Video PlayerClose

SAN FRANCISCO, May 17 (Xinhua) -- A San Francisco-based cyber security firm Thursday revealed a report showing how hackers attacked an Amazon DNS server and stole users' crypto currency last month.

RiskIQ, a global leader in digital threat management, profiled in the report a phishing automated transfer system (ATS) dubbed MEWKit, which targeted users of the crypto currency Ethereum exchange MyEtherWallet, and stole their virtual currency.

The report said the newly discovered attack presents an entirely new threat to the crypto currency landscape, which exceeded "the capabilities of a typical phishing kit by leveraging characteristics of ATS malware to access and steal victims' Ethereum funds directly from the exchange."

The attackers set up a phishing page mimicking the MyEtherWallet site and cheated users to log in, said the report.

MEWKit simply abused MyEtherWallet's unique access to the Ethereum network to make the transactions in the background.

Once a user logs in, MEWKit checks their wallet's balance and requests a receiver address from the server side, and then leverages the standard MyEtherWallet functionality by setting the attacker-owned wallet as the receiving address and transferring out the victim's entire fund, said the report.

RiskIQ researchers discovered a link to the infamous attack on April 24, when hackers rerouted a significant portion of traffic intended for IP addresses operated by Amazon Web Services' DNS service, known as Route 53.

Hackers made off with about 152,000 U.S. dollars worth of Ether in the attack that exploited weaknesses in DNS servers serving MyEtherWallet, earlier media reports said.

DNS is a service that connects domain names of a website to whatever IP address it's hosted on.

TOP STORIES
EDITOR’S CHOICE
MOST VIEWED
EXPLORE XINHUANET
010020070750000000000000011100001371877411
主站蜘蛛池模板: 石嘴山市| 随州市| 潮州市| 轮台县| 湛江市| 平潭县| 西乌| 阜南县| 抚顺县| 晋中市| 白玉县| 靖宇县| 易门县| 阜平县| 平南县| 辛集市| 汉寿县| 大兴区| 台州市| 名山县| 若羌县| 乐亭县| 厦门市| 醴陵市| 衡水市| 潞城市| 镇安县| 清原| 曲松县| 西昌市| 浦县| 荆州市| 海盐县| 侯马市| 年辖:市辖区| 渝北区| 大连市| 永城市| 游戏| 社旗县| 金阳县|