Webroot

MARCH 9, 2021

DNS (Domain Name System) is especially vulnerable. One of the most common methods of infiltration includes internet-based attacks, such as Denial of Service (DoS), Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) and DNS poisoning. However, cybercriminals can also use legal DNS traffic surveillance to their advantage.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2025

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2022

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2024

CISA adds Cleo Harmony, VLTrader, and LexiCom flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog German agency BSI sinkholed a botnet of 30,000 devices infected with BadBox U.S.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Of course, the concentration of the traffic through nodes controlled by Moscow and the deployment of technical hardware provided by the government could open the door to a massive surveillance. Currently, among the 12 organizations that oversee DNS base servers worldwide there isn’t an entity in Russia.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

DNS changer Malicious actors may use IoT devices to target users who connect to them. A 2022 campaign known as Roaming Mantis, or Shaoye, spread an Android app whose capabilities included modifying DNS settings on Wi-Fi routers through the administration interface. The practice has not become widespread due to relative inefficiency.

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SecureList

JUNE 3, 2024

This RAT allows an attacker to surveil and harvest sensitive data from a target computer. However, some of the things the malware authors came up with, such as placing their Python script inside a domain TXT record on the DNS server, were ingenious.

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