Light Roast 110: Intro to DNS Attack Types

A closer look at DNS and how it’s used in cyberattacks.

Katlyn Gallo
8 min readJan 18, 2022

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When you think of DNS attack types, the first thing that probably comes to mind is a Denial of Service, or DoS, attack. While this is a valid thought to have, DoS attacks aren’t actually attacks on DNS. More often than not, they use DNS to carry out a DoS attack rather than actually attacking DNS…

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Katlyn Gallo
Dark Roast Security

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