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Increasing Awareness of DNS Hijacking: A Growing Cyber Threat

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Increasing Awareness of DNS Hijacking: A Growing Cyber Threat

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 DNS analysis, the cybersecurity company also provided real-world examples of recent DNS hijacking attacks — highlighting the urgency of countering this hidden danger. What is DNS hijacking? DNS hijacking involves modifying the responses from targeted DNS servers, redirecting users to attacker-controlled servers instead of the…

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Multi-cloud Strategies Making DDI and DNS Hard to Manage

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Multi-cloud Strategies Making DDI and DNS Hard to Manage

As multi-cloud strategies gain traction, companies are finding that managing the DDI and DNS foundations of their network services is becoming increasingly complex, leading to operational challenges and inefficiencies. Paul Wilcox, Infoblox’s VP for Asia-Pacific Japan, told TechRepublic that centralising management across these different environments could help organisations better coordinate their security, network, and cloud teams. This strategy can also help to detect cyber threats earlier and discover problematic exposures, such as zombie servers. DNS:…

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StormBamboo Compromises ISP to Spread Malware via Updates

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StormBamboo Compromises ISP to Spread Malware via Updates

New research from cybersecurity company Volexity revealed details about a highly sophisticated attack deployed by a Chinese-speaking cyberespionage threat actor named StormBamboo. StormBamboo compromised an ISP to modify some DNS answers to queries from systems requesting legitimate software updates. Multiple software vendors were targeted. The altered responses led to malicious payloads served by StormBamboo in addition to the legitimate update files. The payloads targeted both macOS and Microsoft Windows operating systems. Who is StormBamboo? StormBamboo…

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