dns attack

Today we launch our 2019 Threats of the Year report; a look back at the major tools and tactics that cybercriminals have exploited over the past year. Based on original research conducted for our ‘Threat of the Month’ blog series, we look into the impact of directed attacks against specific o…

[Ed. note: This post was authored by Veronica Valeros, Ross Gibb, Eric Hulse, and Martin Rehak] Late last autumn, the detector described in one of our previous posts, Cognitive Research: Learning Detectors of Malicious Network Traffic, started to pick up a handful of infected hosts exhibiting a new…

Prologue The Domain Name System (DNS) is the protocol leveraged within the Internet´s distributed name and address database architecture. Originally implemented to make access to Internet-based resources human-friendly, DNS quickly became critical infrastructure in the intricate behind-the-scenes me…