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DNS

12 articles

What we know about the cryptocurrency theft through Adform ads
  • privacy

A billion risky impressions: lessons from the Adform hack

Visit a familiar website, and along with the usual ad banner you could pick up a script that steals cryptocurrency. How can you protect yourself from attacks delivered through online ads?

  • Stan Kaminsky

  • August 11, 2026

The top-five funny school, social media, and IoT hacks
  • hacking

Five hacks that were (mostly) just for laughs

Funny hacks that became internet legends: talking traffic lights, a high-school Rickroll, robot vacuums on the rampage, a Lenovo defacement, and a Burger King hijack.

  • Alanna Titterington

  • July 1, 2025

KeyTrap attack can take out a DNS server
  • vulnerabilities

KeyTrap: how to break a DNS server with a single packet

The KeyTrap DoS attack, which can disable DNS servers with a single malicious packet exploiting a vulnerability in DNSSEC.

  • Alanna Titterington

  • February 19, 2024

Crypto theft from Exodus and Bitcoin wallets through cracked macOS apps
  • macOS

How to steal crypto via DNS

Getting what you pay for: cracked macOS apps fetch malicious code from DNS records to steal crypto

  • Sergey Puzan

  • January 31, 2024

TunnelCrack vulnerabilities in VPN clients
  • VPN

How to fix TunnelCrack VPN leaks

What caused a mass vulnerability in VPN clients, and how to keep them working.

  • Stan Kaminsky

  • August 10, 2023

How to set up Secure DNS and Private DNS
  • tips

Why you should set up secure DNS – and how

Have you ever come across the words Secure DNS or Private DNS in your smartphone settings and security apps? It’s best to keep this feature enabled – it has many advantages.

  • Stan Kaminsky

  • February 17, 2023

  • vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-1350: Vulnerability in Windows DNS servers

Microsoft has released a patch for a critical RCE vulnerability in Windows Server systems.

  • Hugh Aver

  • July 15, 2020

  • RSA conference

RSAC 2019: Grand Theft DNS

At RSAC 2019, a SANS Institute instructor talked about how DNS manipulations can be used to hijack a company’s IT infrastructure.

  • Alex Drozhzhin

  • March 29, 2019

Switcher hacks Wi-Fi routers, switches DNS
  • threats

Switcher hacks Wi-Fi routers, switches DNS

An unconventional Android Trojan does not do anything to your smartphone; instead it hacks the Wi-Fi hotspot the smartphone is connected to.

  • Alex Drozhzhin

  • December 28, 2016

  • ddos

Root DNS servers DDoS’ed: was it a show-off?

DDoS attacks are a formidable (and somewhat regular) problem for businesses, but occasionally they appear to be a threat for the entirety of Web. On Nov. 30 and Dec. 1,

  • Yuri Ilyin

  • December 22, 2015

  • cyberattacks

Routers on fire: hackers rush change DNS settings

A large-scale “pharming” campaign targeting home routers took place in South America, the latest in a trend Kaspersky Lab’s experts have been monitoring for awhile. Home routers are frequently used

  • Yuri Ilyin

  • March 24, 2015

  • DNS

The phantom menace: why pay more attention to routers

This article is in reaction to the news that a new worm targeted specific models of Linksys routers. The Moon worm ([1], [2]) is exploiting a flaw of those routers’

  • Yuri Ilyin

  • March 3, 2014

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