In April I speculated about the impending doom of the DNS.
Now we know what was in the works, and yes, it’s not a pretty picture.
My idea from april doesn’t work 1:1, as the attacker doesn’t attack a single target, sondern arbitrary other hostnames in the same domain.
Anyway, I spent the last days analyzing data from .at nameserver regarding patch discipline in Austria. You can read the depressing results here.