Threat actors have hijacked more than 35,000 registered domains in so-called Sitting Ducks attacks that allow claiming a domain without having access to the owner's account at the DNS provider or ...

A few years ago, I had the privilege of seeing some root DNS servers in action at VeriSign’s main headquarters. It’s something I had wanted to do for over a decade, and I was literally slightly ...

In brief: Last year, Volexity detected and responded to an incident involving systems infected with malware linked to the Chinese hacking group StormBamboo. Initially, suspicions pointed to a ...

Cybercriminals are now using techniques to launch distributed denial of service attacks once only available to nation-state threat actors. The last few months have seen an increase in the number of ...

Few things can strike fear into the heart of the IT department like an attack on a company’s Domain Name System servers. That may explain why companies are spending so much time to deploy myriad, ...

The creator of the Metasploit hacking toolkit has become the victim of a cache poisoning attack that targets a DNS bug HD Moore has been owned. That’s hacker talk, meaning that Moore, the creator of ...

The Web3 platform’s website has been restored, but the company still warns against using it. The hack may be linked to September’s attack on Balancer. The website of Web3 community platform Galxe was ...

A scrap between two pornographic Web sites turned nasty when one figured out how to take down the other by exploiting a previously unknown quirk in the Internet’s Domain Name System (DNS). The attack ...

Hackers have released software that exploits a recently disclosed flaw in the Domain Name System (DNS) software used to route messages between computers on the Internet. The attack code was released ...

A global attack on the domain name system (DNS) caused disruptions affecting customers of Internet hosting company Akamai Technologies, including search engine sites, said Jeff Young, an Akamai ...

For much of the past week, the various demonoid.com addresses (all static) sometimes unreachable through DNS. E.g. ping fora.demonoid.com suddenly goes 'Unknown host' and comes back hours later.

Four out of five financial organizations experienced a DNS attack last year, according to IDC 2020 Global DNS Threat Report 59% of Financial Services companies suffered application downtime as a ...