Accidentally Stopping a Global Cyber Attack

Re:Accidentally Stopping a Global Cyber Attack by jldugger on Saturday May 13, 2017 @01:28PM (#14332012)

Probably to prevent it from fucking their own computer network up. Just change your local resolver to be authoritative for the domain(s) in question, and bob's your uncle.

But next they'll likely use more domains, and more expensive ones, so that random security researchers can't just expense the registration on the corporate credit card. I know .ng costs 50k, but .np might be pretty comical to deploy if you're not really worried about a global off switch.

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Re:Accidentally Stopping a Global Cyber Attack by mseebach on Sunday May 14, 2017 @07:16AM (#14335136)

If that's the motivation, just use a non-existant TLD, or, even better, .local

If the motivation is to have a killswitch, you don't want something expensive, because the attackers would then have to pay for it if they want to activate it for whatever reason.

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Re:Accidentally Stopping a Global Cyber Attack by elaus on Monday May 15, 2017 @01:23AM (#14339341)

.ng domains cost a few hundred bucks per year, the times when they cost >10k are long gone

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