Today, December 5th 2012. in the early hours of the morning, our main web site ninet.rs came under hacker attack. We identified group of Pakistani hackers responsible for this activities. The hacker group has demanded known names in the RS domain space, such as Google, Microsoft, etc.. Since Ninet Company is one of the leading registrars with the largest number of foreign resellers in the first place, therefore is constantly exposed to various kinds of attacks.
Our system administrators immediately reacted and prevented further penetration into the system, all unauthorized DNS records changes are restored by the timely intervention of domain names administrators .
We have temporarily shut down our site, and we are doing security checks. Our servers are working on cPanel platform and cPanel has reported security bug and released 3 security fix yesterday (http://cpanel.net/news/). After applying this fixes we are continuing to check our systems.
Because of this, the last in the series of attacks, we are forced to introduce the most rigorous security measures, primarily for .rs domain resellers, e.g. access to the domain panel exclusively via VPN, second factor authentication, source IP restriction, and others.
No other parts of the DNS infrastructure, beneficiary or any other data are not affected by this short-lived attacks.
All domain operations (register, renew, DNS change..) are currently unavailable via our web services. For all domain related requests please send us an e-mail at our e-mail address .