[cabfpub] Brazilian bank DNS heist

[Richard Wang]

As I know, for Internet banking security in China, some bank developed its own client software that they don’t use browser, and the internal important communication use IP address + SSL certificate, and the SSL certificate is issued by the bank’s own CA.  This will solve the DNS heist, fake SSL certificate problem.





Best Regards,



Richard



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Several folk have asked me to take a look at this:



http://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/cybercriminals-seized-control-of-brazilian-bank-for-5-hours/d/d-id/1328549?_mc=NL_DR_EDT_DR_weekly_20170406&cid=NL_DR_EDT_DR_weekly_20170406&elqTrackId=ebd6c41927c24e3099907130009f169c&elq=4cc869335a354df394b4e640ef369950&elqaid=77725&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=26175



What happened here was that a hacker took over a banks DNS settings for 5 hours and performed an extended phishing attack. They then acquired certs for the domain while they had control of it. So accepting that this is one incident, albeit one likely very typical of things to come, could CAA have helped?



As it stands, the answer is no because CAA is signaled through the DNS and so the attackers could control those as well. DNSSEC doesn’t help either and nor does CT as presently specified. Pinning does solve this one specific problem but only on TOFU terms.





Some observations:



* Any solution is going to have to involve some form of forward acting statement ‘do this for the next X hours’.



* We now have two mechanisms that are viable as publication infrastructures - DNS and CT.



* The problems with pinning are real, very few companies can risk shutting themselves down for an extended period if they goof. The problem with pinning is that the time period really does need to be fairly long if it is to be any use. I do not visit my bank every day. I probably don’t visit for a month at times.



* A weaker criteria such as ‘must get an EV cert’ or a much shorter time period than is needed for pinning (24 hours) is much more likely to be acceptable





Ideas?

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