Security News

DNS over HTTPS is coming whether ISPs and governments like it or not
2019-04-24 10:59

DNS over HTTPS (DoH), backed by Google, Mozilla and Cloudflare, is about to make web surveillance a lot more difficult.

State-Sponsored Hackers Use Sophisticated DNS Hijacking in Ongoing Attacks
2019-04-18 16:17

With growing concern over DNS manipulation attacks, details on a new elite state-sponsored DNS hijacking campaign have been released. Called operation Sea Turtle, researchers believe that at least...

New DNS Hijacking Attacks
2019-04-18 10:13

DNS hijacking isn't new, but this seems to be an attack of uprecidented scale: Researchers at Cisco's Talos security division on Wednesday revealed that a hacker group it's calling Sea Turtle...

Insane in the domain: Sea Turtle hackers pwn DNS orgs to dash web surfers on the rocks of phishing pages
2019-04-17 23:25

Website settings altered to point visitors to malicious clones Internet domain registrars and at least one registry were hijacked to change certain websites' DNS settings so that visitors to said...

'Sea Turtle' DNS Hijacking Group Conducts Espionage: Report
2019-04-17 22:03

Cisco Talos Researchers Describe Group's MethodsA nation-state sponsored espionage campaign dubbed "Sea Turtle" has been manipulating the domain name system to target more than 40 organizations,...

State-Sponsored DNS Hijacking Infiltrates 40 Firms Globally
2019-04-17 17:32

An ongoing campaign, active since 2017, has been stealing credentials via global DNS hijacking attacks.

Iranian Hackers Heavily Reliant on DNS Tunneling
2019-04-17 12:20

Iran-linked cyber-espionage group OilRig is making broad use of DNS tunneling across its tools portfolio, Palo Alto Networks security researchers reveal. read more

Ongoing DNS Hijacking Campaign Targets Gmail, PayPal, Netflix Users
2019-04-05 16:00

A DNS hijacking campaign that has been ongoing for the past three months is targeting the users of popular online services, including Gmail, PayPal, and Netflix.  As part of the campaign, the...

Consumer routers targeted by DNS hijacking attackers
2019-04-05 10:17

Owners of a slew of D-Link, ARGtek, DSLink, Secutech, TOTOLINK and Cisco consumer routers are urged to update their device’s firmware, lest they fall prey to ongoing DNS hijacking campaigns and...

Leveraging Hidden DNS Information to Fight Threats
2019-03-27 14:03

Stuart Reed of Nominet on Using DNS to Get Visibility on Security RisksThe information provided in a domain name system is far deeper than just those transactions that take place. A DNS provides...