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Dec 1, 2023 · Information Security

Silence is not Golden: Disrupting the Load Balancing of Authoritative DNS Servers – ACM CCS 2023 Distinguished Paper Award

The ACM CCS 2023 distinguished paper 'Silence is not Golden: Disrupting the Load Balancing of Authoritative DNS Servers' by Alibaba Cloud and Tsinghua University reveals a novel attack that exploits silent‑response policies of authoritative DNS servers to manipulate load‑balancing in major recursive resolvers, affecting a significant portion of popular domains.