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Vexing and Vicious: The Eerie Relationship between WordPress Hackers and an Adtech Cabal
Executive Summary What started out as an observational study—perturb VexTrio and see how they adapt—led to a series of surprising revelations. When their traffic distribution system (TDS) was disrupted, multiple malware actors that depended on it all migrated to a “new” TDS, but it was the same TDS! Originally thought to be an independent TDS, […]
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Encrypted DNS + Protective DNS = ?
If you’re as old as I am, you may remember this now-classic commercial for Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. The gist of the ad was that chocolate and peanut butter are “two great tastes that taste great together.” (The ad may cause you youngsters to wonder, “Did people in the 80s really walk around with open […]
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Blue Helix: Agentic OSINT Researcher
As digital threats accelerate in both volume and complexity, and as AI-enabled threat actor development will surely further deepen this existing asymmetry, human analysts often struggle to synthesize the sheer volume of intelligence in a timely manner. Existing methods for open-source intelligence (OSINT) investigation often rely on manual report synthesis (locating, reading, operationalizing), which cannot […]
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Cloudy with a Chance of Hijacking Forgotten DNS Records Enable Scam Actor
Authors: Jacques Portal, Renée Burton Hazy Hawk is a DNS-savvy threat actor that hijacks abandoned cloud resources of high-profile organizations. By “cloud resources” we mean things like S3 buckets and Azure endpoints. You might have read about domain hijacking; we and other security vendors have written about different techniques for grabbing control of forgotten […]
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Infoblox Achieves ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Certification
Infoblox is proud to announce a significant milestone in our ongoing commitment to data security: We have officially achieved ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification. This globally recognized standard for information security management systems (ISMS) underscores our unwavering dedication to protecting the valuable information entrusted to us by our customers and partners. In an era where data breaches […]
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Blocking Shadow AI Using Protective DNS—Simple yet Powerful
Generative AI applications have exploded in usage by organizations in the last two years. More than 100 million users are now experimenting and using AI applications. But, as with any new tool, the adoption of GenAI by enterprises introduces unique risks in areas such as security, privacy, legal, safety and organizational reputation. More specifically, risks […]
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February–April 2025 Innovations: What’s New in Universal DDI This Quarter
As enterprises continue to evolve their hybrid, multi-cloud strategies, Infoblox is committed to delivering innovations that simplify networking, improve security posture and accelerate business transformation. Since the launch of Infoblox Universal DDI™ Product Suite in September 2024, we’ve continuously introduced many new features and enhancements. In the last three months, Infoblox has announced an integrated […]
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Telegram Tango: Dancing with a Scammer
One gray morning this winter, a random person contacted me on Telegram and asked if I was interested in working a part-time, remote job. They said their name was Arabella and told me the job would pay US$150-$310 per day. Better yet, the job required no experience and they would train me for free! (see […]
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A New Prefix Makes It Easier Than Ever to Document IPv6
If you’ve spent any time at all working with IPv6, chances are that at some point you’ve needed to document or depict a network design or configuration. If your organization already has an IPv6 Global Unicast Allocation, you might have been tempted to simply use prefixes and/or addresses from this range for such documentation purposes. […]
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The Essential Role of Zero Trust DNS in Modern Security
Microsoft has announced the public preview of Zero Trust DNS (ZTDNS), a new feature in Windows 11 Insider builds designed to enhance security by enforcing domain-name-based network access controls. ZTDNS integrates the Windows DNS client with trusted Protective DNS (PDNS) servers, ensuring that outbound traffic is only permitted to IP addresses resolved by these servers. […]
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Uncovering Actor TTP Patterns and the Role of DNS in Investment Scams
Authors: Darby Wise, Piotr Glaska, Laura da Rocha According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), consumers lost more money to investment scams than any other kind in 2024. This equates to a 24 percent increase from 2023 to 2024 in the amount of money lost—a total of US$5.7 billion1. These threats take a variety of […]
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Verizon 2025 DBIR findings coincide with dangers of malicious adtech
Infoblox Threat Intel recognized as a contributor in the Verizon 2025 Data Breach Investigation Report (DBIR). The Verizon 2025 DBIR provides multiple insights on how adversaries have increased the scale of their operations and succeeded in finding new targets. According to Dr. Renée Burton, head of Infoblox Threat Intel, many of the Verizon findings highlight […]
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