In recent news, more than 13,000 subdomains of brands were hijacked for a large spam campaign that "leverages the trust associated with these domains to circulate spam and malicious phishing emails by the millions each day, cunningly using their credibility and stolen resources to slip past security measures."
Phishing and scam campaigns are one of the biggest challenges for businesses and organizations across the globe and continue to evade traditional security measures year after year.
CSC, an enterprise-class domain registrar and world leader in mitigating domain and domain name system (DNS) threats, today released its “Subdomain Hijacking Vulnerabilities Report” that reviewed over 440,000 DNS records and found that over 21% of DNS records point to content that does not resolve, leaving many companies vulnerable to subdomain hijacking. Additionally, over 277,000 (63%) show error status codes such as “404 not found” or “502 bad gateway.”