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Google on Wednesday announced a new partnership with the Global Anti-Scam Alliance (GASA) and DNS Research Federation (DNS RF) to combat online scams. The initiative, which has been codenamed the...

Infoblox’s Universal DDI solution could help stop cyber threat actors earlier.

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...

The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) has released patches to address multiple security vulnerabilities in the Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) 9 Domain Name System (DNS) software suite that...

Decentralized finance crypto exchange dYdX announced on Tuesday that the website for its older v3 trading platform has been compromised. dYdX also warned users not to visit or interact with the hacked dydx[.

Security researchers are claiming a spate of DNS hijackings at web3 businesses is linked to Squarespace's acquisition of Google Domains last year. According to the researchers' report, Squarespace pre-registered a bunch of email addresses it thought would be useful to have set up as domain admins following the migration without checking if the email accounts existed.

A wave of coordinated DNS hijacking attacks targets decentralized finance (DeFi) cryptocurrency domains using the Squarespace registrar, redirecting visitors to phishing sites hosting wallet...

Cybersecurity researchers have shed more light on a Chinese actor codenamed SecShow that has been observed conducting Domain Name System (DNS) on a global scale since at least June 2023. The...

ZTDNS aims to solve this decades-old problem by integrating the Windows DNS engine with the Windows Filtering Platform-the core component of the Windows Firewall-directly into client devices. Jake Williams, VP of research and development at consultancy Hunter Strategy, said the union of these previously disparate engines would allow updates to be made to the Windows firewall on a per-domain name basis.