Understanding the Curve Finance DNS hijacking 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 ...

Cybercriminals are using increasingly ingenious methods to evade detection. A recent example shows how the domain name system (DNS), which was originally ...

This resulted in an average of 38 DNS hijack records per day. Daily counts of candidates and predicted DNS hijacking records. Image: Palo Alto Networks.

The problem involves the complex way DNS records point to an IP address. What’s called an A record maps a website name to one or more IP addresses.

A newly discovered botnet of 13,000 MikroTik devices uses a misconfiguration in domain name server records to bypass email protections and deliver malware by spoofing roughly 20,000 web domains.

WILMINGTON, Del.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CSC, an enterprise-class domain registrar and world leader in mitigating domain and domain name system (DNS) threats, today released its “Subdomain Hijacking ...

Both DNS resolvers and authoritative DNS servers are important and can cause disruptions if taken down. If a resolver is disrupted, computers that rely on it might be unable to access domain names.