Bypassing Firewalls with DNS Tunnelling (Defence Evasion, Exfiltration and Command & Control)

In this video we'll be exploring how to attack, detect and defend against DNS Tunnelling, a technique that can bypass certain firewall restrictions and provide an attacker with a command & control and data transfer channel. It can also be used to bypass many of the Captive Portals found on public wifi networks.

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Further reading/watching:
Mitre ATT&CK on DNS Tunnelling: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T...
Cynet article on DNS Tunnelling: https://www.cynet.com/attack-techniqu...
DNScat2 project page: https://github.com/iagox86/dnscat2
Iodine project page: https://github.com/yarrick/iodine
SANS Paper on Detecting DNS Tunnelling: https://www.giac.org/paper/gcia/1116/...
SecurityOnion: https://securityonionsolutions.com/
Cisco OpenDNS: https://www.opendns.com

Audio Credits (licensed under CC0):
Intro/Outro Music by Flavio Concini (https://freesound.org/people/Greek555/)
Transition audio: "Ethereal Woosh" by Newagesoup (https://freesound.org/people/newagesoup/)

Graphics credits:
Icons: Sketchy Collection by Ralf Schmitzer, licensed under CCBY (https://thenounproject.com/ralfschmit...)

Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
2:08 Attack
5:49 Detect
6:53 Defend