I accidentally logged phone calls to military bases
A security researcher details how they accidentally logged thousands of phone calls to military bases by exploiting vulnerabilities in the legacy ENUM (e164.arpa) DNS infrastructure. The piece highlights the risks of abandoned internet protocols and the potential for infrastructure hijacking.
Why it matters
It exposes significant security vulnerabilities in outdated telecommunications infrastructure that remains active but unmonitored.
DNS hijacking is silly. I already took over different .gov and .edu domains in the past, but I just immediately reported that and moved on. This one is a little different though, it's about how I took over phone-network infrastructure domains ( e164.arpa ) of entire territories, and accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases. But let's start at the beginning.
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