The article is based on a research project carried out by researchers from Akamai Technologies and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, which was recently published as an academic paper in Elsevier’s Computers & Security journal .1 \r\n Executive Summary \r\n \r\n Akamai researchers in conjunction with researchers from Ben-Gurion University and Deutsche Telekom Innovation Labs Israel discovered a multifaceted DNS spoofing threat utilizing anti-malware technologies. \r\n \r\n This threat was first discovered using the McAfee Endpoint Security Agent and was responsibly disclosed, resulting in a CVE and patch to remediate the threat. \r\n \r\n This sophisticated attack can achieve both the alert fatigue that plagues security teams everywhere and allow attacks to propagate undetected.…