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What Is a DNS Attack? Understanding the Risks and Threats

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Feed Name: The Cyber Express

Date Published: 2026-01-13

Date Updated: 2026-05-05

Author: Ashish Khaitan

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This article provides an overview of DNS attacks, describing how attackers exploit DNS vulnerabilities to intercept or redirect traffic, perform cache poisoning, DDoS, tunneling, and other abuses; it cites impacts (including a 2026 incident causing Cisco Small Business Switches to reboot) and outlines prevention steps such as patching, restricting zone transfers, disabling recursion, implementing DNSSEC, and using DNS firewalls, with attention to cloud DNS configuration and monitoring.

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