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You’re casually browsing the internet – maybe checking the news or searching for a recipe – when you receive a pop-up on the screen that your phone is infected. You’re urged to download an antivirus app before it’s “too late”.

Recent updates from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have brought critical attention to a crucial yet often overlooked component of network security: the Domain Name System (DNS).

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The threat actors behind the VexTrio Viper Traffic Distribution Service (TDS) have been linked to other TDS services like Help TDS and Disposable TDS, indicating that the sophisticated cybercriminal operation is a sprawling enterprise of its own that's designed to distribute malicious content.

Late last year, security researchers made a startling discovery: Kremlin-backed disinformation campaigns were bypassing moderation on social media platforms by leveraging the same malicious advertising technology that powers a sprawling ecosystem of online hucksters and website hackers.

More wannabe cybercriminals are turning to user-friendly online tool kits designed to help them steal login credentials, passwords, credit card numbers and other sensitive data.

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Hackread reports that newly identified threat operation Hazy Hawk has been exploiting DNS misconfigurations and deserted cloud resources to take over domains belonging to the Centers for Disease Control, the state of Alabama, the Australian Department of Health, the University of California at Berkeley, and the University College London, as well as Deloitte and PwC, since December 2023.

Infoblox says crooks are finding and taking over ‘dangling’ CNAME records for scams. Threat actors continue to find ways of hijacking domains thanks to poor DNS record-keeping and misconfigurations by administrators, a hole that CSOs have to plug or risk financial or reputational damage to their organizations.

A threat actor tracked as 'Hazy Hawk' is hijacking forgotten DNS CNAME records pointing to abandoned cloud services, taking over trusted subdomains of governments, universities, and Fortune 500 companies to distribute scams, fake apps, and malicious ads.