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The Key Role of Protective DNS for Phishing Protection

Phishing attacks have been around for almost three decades. Awareness of them is wide with phishing protection measures to detect and block them included in almost every security solution. Nevertheless, they remain one of the most commonly used attack vectors. According to the IDC 2023 DNS threat report, 54% of organizations were victims of phishing attacks in 2023, a 3% increase from 2022. It is not surprising that regulatory bodies across the world are shining a spotlight on this attack...

Network Security for Higher Education: The Key Role of DNS

Last year, Education and Research were the top targets for cybercriminals, according to a study by Check Point. With remote learning becoming normal, bad actors are finding new ways to leverage techniques such as phishing and ransomware, often using DNS as an attack target or a vector. IDC’s 2022 Global DNS Threat Report shows that 84% of schools and universities were victims of DNS attacks in the past 12 months. The report then goes on to provide recommendations on how purpose-built DNS...

DNS Security for Healthcare: Controlling Connected Devices and Protecting Patient Data

Over the past few years, healthcare organizations have been rapidly moving towards connected devices and cloud, driven by digital transformation projects and accelerated by the pandemic. However, to allow operating with complete trust, cybersecurity solutions need to keep pace with new telehealth/telemedicine technologies adopted which due to their criticality for patient health must be “always on”. Above all, network infrastructure needs to be reliable, connected medical devices have to be controlled in terms of what infrastructure they are allowed to...

Cybersquatting: The Basics Part 2 – How to Protect Yourself

In part 1 of this blog series we learned about the strategies and attack types used for cybersquatting. We’ll now go through some ideas on how companies can protect themselves. Tools to help people On a Kali distribution, one can find a number of ready-to-use tools for typosquatting.Among these tools, “urlcrazy” is probably the best known. It is a very powerful tool, which from a domain name is able to generate other domain names with strong similarities and test their...

Cybersquatting: The Basics Part 1 – Strategies and Attack Types

DNS is no longer just a name resolution system to make our lives easier in the day-to-day use of applications. It now plays an important role in the various techniques used by attackers. We know about the “Protocol abuse” attacks, which consist of using the DNS protocol in a hijacked manner. In addition, attacks exist that target the DNS to alter or render the DNS service inoperative. In this blog, we will look at other techniques on the DNS that...

How to Enhance Threat Intelligence with Newly Observed Domains

Domain names life cycle… Domain names are used as a way to abstract the location of the related application or service and hide its IP address to the user. It is much easier to remember a meaningful name than a meaningless IP address, particularly when it comes to IPv6 addresses. Before anything, one needs to register the new domain name in a Domain Name Registrar. This corresponds to reserving the name so no one else can use it from then...

How DNS Security Protects the Most Targeted Industry: Telecoms

The past year has only increased the pressure placed upon the telecoms and media industry as companies continue their transition to the hybrid working model post pandemic and organizations continue to implement 5G. The rise in demand has left mobile operators and ISPs increasingly prone to threat actors using DNS to target the industry. The impacts of these cyber threats are felt globally, as telecoms provide the infrastructure needed to go about our daily lives, from our work to our...

Addressing DNS Security Risks That Threaten The Education Sector

In the wake of the pandemic, the education sector saw one of the most dramatic digital transformations as schools and universities worldwide were forced to move overnight to remote learning. This resulted in a growing cybersecurity footprint seized by attackers, especially targeting the Domain Name System (DNS) which plays a crucial role in routing internal and external traffic. While almost all organizations have been vulnerable, K-12 schools have been shown to be particularly at risk. As school systems went into...

How DNS Security Protects the Financial Industry Against Cyberattacks

For many years, the volume of sensitive customer and financial data in circulation have made the financial services sector an attractive target for attackers, and the COVID-19 pandemic has further enhanced this, creating new risks for banks, trading platforms and other financial institutions. The rapid shift to distributed and remote workforces has resulted in more complex company networks revealing weak points in IT security concepts. An increased reliance on cloud services in combination with the swift acceleration of connected devices...

How DNS Security Can Help The Very-Targeted Healthcare Industry Fight Back

The COVID-19 pandemic has placed an incredible pressure on the healthcare industry, not just in the physical world but also in the digital one. Healthcare is uniquely vulnerable to cyberattacks, particularly attacks utilizing DNS. In the 2021 Global DNS Threat Report, just released by EfficientIP and IDC, we see how threat actors are targeting the DNS of verticals such as healthcare, as well as what companies are doing about it. Why threat actors love to target healthcare Healthcare is an...

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