Opening a new front against DNS-based threats

Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical decentralized naming system for numerous network devices connected to the internet or a private network. Its primary function is to translate user-friendly domain names, such as www.avast.com, into numerical IP addresses that devices use to identify each other on a network.

When a domain name is entered into a web browser, the computer first checks its local cache to see if it already knows the corresponding IP address. If the IP …

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