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 ...
On May 12, 2025, at 20:55 UTC, hackers hijacked the “.fi” domain name system (DNS) of Curve Finance after managing to access the registrar. They began sending its users to a malicious website, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
“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 ...
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An overwhelming 98% of chief information security officers (CISOs) expect a surge in cyberattacks over the next three years as organizations face an increasingly complex and artificial intelligence ...