How the Nigerian Air Force subdomain was likely hijacked: two scenarios
thejasminejade · x · 2026-10-07
Follow-up analysis in the same thread: the parent site sits on Galaxybackbone's network with its nameservers, yet the affected subdomain points to a rented cloud server — a known pattern for hijacked or forgotten DNS records.
Two scenarios: someone compromised the account that edits DNS records, or the record was once real but the server shut down and a stranger later acquired the same IP.
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