Over one million domains have been found to be potentially vulnerable to a “Sitting Ducks” attack, a cyber threat that exploits DNS misconfigurations to hijack domains. The report, published by ...

The creator of the Metasploit hacking toolkit has become the victim of a cache poisoning attack that targets a DNS bug HD Moore has been owned. That’s hacker talk, meaning that Moore, the creator of ...

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 ...

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 July 11 Compound and Celer attacks may have been rooted in a Squarespace migration, and blockchain may help prevent future attacks. A July 11 domain name system (DNS) attack against multiple Web3 ...

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, ...

Third annual study by The Measurement Factory, sponsored by DNS management vendor Infoblox, shares the bad news that many servers remain vulnerable to pharming and other attacks. More than half of ...