A recent report from Palo Alto Networks’s Unit 42 exposes the persistent and evolving threat of DNS hijacking, a stealthy tactic cybercriminals use to reroute internet traffic. By leveraging passive ...

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an emergency directive on January 22 to address ongoing incidents associated with global ...

The domain name system (DNS) is the backbone of the internet, but it’s also one of its biggest security blind spots. As a translator between user-friendly domain names and machine-friendly IP ...

FireEye’s Mandiant Incident Response and Intelligence teams have identified a wave of DNS hijacking that has affected dozens of domains belonging to government, telecommunications and internet ...

“Had the attackers wanted to take down the DNS portion of the internet, they could have done so,” said Talos' Craig Williams. Cisco Talos researchers say a nation state is likely behind a new ...

Among the numerous cyber threats that enterprises must contend with, domain-based attacks hold a prominent position. These are attacks that target or exploit domain names or DNS infrastructure.

Attackers have long exploited sloppy DNS configurations to hijack domain names and redirect users to shady sites for scams, malware distribution, and other malicious activities. Now, a threat actor ...

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