Mitigation : The entity has the capability to mitigate : The entity lacks the capability to mitigate Registrars Registries Authoritative Operators Domain name resellers Recursive Operators Network Operators Application Service Provider Hosting Provider Threat Intelligence Provider Device, OS, & Application Software Developers Domain Registrants End User Law Enforcement and Public Safety Authorities CSIRTs / ISACs Incident responder DGAs N/A Domain name compromise Lame delegations DNS cache poisoning DNS rebinding DNS server compromise Stub resolver hijacking Local recursive resolver hijacking On-path DNS attack DoS against the DNS DNS as a vector for DoS Dynamic DNS resolution (as obfuscation technique) N/A Dynamic DNS resolution: Fast flux (as obfuscation technique) N/A Infiltration and exfiltration via the DNS N/A Malicious registration of (effective) second level domains N/A Creation of malicious subdomains under dynamic DNS providers N/A Compromise of a non-DNS server to conduct abuse Spoofing or otherwise using unregistered domain names Spoofing of a registered domain DNS tunneling - tunneling another protocol over DNS N/A DNS beacons - C2 communication N/A