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From dangling DNS records to reverse DNS gaps, attackers find new blind spots

networkworld.com · 11dShare

DNS underlies nearly every action taken on a network. A website visit, an email, a call to an AI application—all of it starts with a DNS lookup. That dependency cuts both ways. Attackers rely on the same lookups to route victims through malicious infrastructure, and increasingly they do it using techniques that were never supposed to work on the DNS system in the first place. According to Infoblox’s 2026 Threat Landscape Report , attackers are abusing DNS in novel and unique ways to exploit users. The report frames cybercrime as an increasingly industrialized business, with commodity services lowering the barrier to entry for attackers who no longer need deep technical skill to operate at scale. Several of the report’s DNS-specific findings illustrate how that industrialization plays out at the protocol level. Top DNS findings from the report include the following: More than 120 million newly registered domains were observed from June 2025 to June 2026, and more than 22% were weaponize

First report: CubePilot drone software dev hit by DNS hijacking to intercept traffic — bleepingcomputer.com, 13d