Report Surfaces Sharp Increase in Malware Detections

**Executive summary:** EfficientIP’s analysis of 150 billion DNS transactions found that malware has overtaken phishing as the most-detected DNS-based threat, with malware detections nearly doubling to 3.84 billion; domain-generation algorithm activity and newly observed malicious domains surged sharply, and the report warns that AI-driven tooling may be accelerating malware creation and attack scale, increasing systemic risk and underscoring the need for stronger DNS-layer defenses.