🌐 Free DNS Monitoring Tools Revealing Stealthy Attacks 🌐

DNS is the backbone of your network – and attackers increasingly exploit it for data exfiltration, command-and-control, and malware communication. The good news? There are free tools CISOs can use to monitor and detect stealthy DNS attacks.

Here are the top free DNS monitoring tools:

1️⃣ SecurityTrails Free Tier – Track domain changes, DNS records, and suspicious activity.
🔗 https://securitytrails.com/

2️⃣ Farsight DNSDB (Community Access) – Historical DNS data to detect anomalies.
🔗 https://www.farsightsecurity.com/solutions/dnsdb/

3️⃣ PassiveTotal (Free Plan) – Aggregates DNS and threat intelligence for early detection.
🔗 https://www.riskiq.com/solutions/passivetotal/

4️⃣ OpenDNS Investigate (Free Tier) – Domain reputation and threat visibility from Cisco.
🔗 https://umbrella.cisco.com/products/investigate

5️⃣ Quad9 DNS Monitoring – Free recursive DNS service with threat blocking and logging.
🔗 https://www.quad9.net/

6️⃣ Pi-hole – Network-level DNS sinkhole that can monitor and block suspicious domains.
🔗 https://pi-hole.net/

7️⃣ Dnstrails Community Edition – DNS intelligence and threat mapping.
🔗 https://dnstrails.com/

⚡ These tools provide early indicators of compromise, helping CISOs spot threats before they escalate. DNS monitoring is often overlooked, but it’s a powerful layer of defense.

At AUMINT.io, we combine technical monitoring with human attack simulations, showing how attackers leverage phishing, vishing, and social engineering to exploit DNS and user behavior simultaneously.

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💰 Financial Scams Are Exploiting Human Trust

⚠️ Social engineering attacks are targeting wealth management clients, executives, and finance teams, manipulating trust to bypass traditional cybersecurity measures.

📞 Emails, phone calls, and social media interactions are weaponized to impersonate advisors or pressure targets into transferring funds.

💡 A single compromised communication can trigger massive financial loss, making human behavior the weak link in modern wealth protection.

🔍 AUMINT Trident simulates real-world social engineering attacks on finance teams, revealing vulnerabilities and guiding actionable security improvements before incidents occur.

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☁️ Free SaaS Risk Assessment Platforms No One Talks About ☁️

SaaS adoption is skyrocketing, but unchecked apps create hidden security and compliance risks. Luckily, there are free platforms CISOs can leverage to assess SaaS risk without a huge budget.

Here are top free SaaS risk assessment tools:

1️⃣ BitSight Free Insights – Basic SaaS risk scoring and vendor exposure overview.
🔗 https://www.bitsight.com/

2️⃣ Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) STAR Self-Assessment – Framework to evaluate cloud/SaaS provider security posture.
🔗 https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/star/

3️⃣ RiskRecon Free Tier – Provides risk ratings and supplier insights for SaaS applications.
🔗 https://www.riskrecon.com/

4️⃣ AppOmni Free Plan – SaaS security posture assessment for collaboration apps and CRMs.
🔗 https://www.appomni.com/

5️⃣ SaaS Security Alliance (SSA) Tools – Templates and guides for evaluating SaaS risk.
🔗 https://www.saassecurityalliance.org/

6️⃣ OpenPages SaaS Risk Templates – Free templates for mapping SaaS applications to risk categories.
🔗 https://www.ibm.com/products/openpages

7️⃣ CloudSploit Community Edition – Checks misconfigurations and risk in SaaS-integrated cloud services.
🔗 https://github.com/aquasecurity/cloudsploit

⚡ Takeaway: Even free tools provide visibility, scoring, and actionable recommendations that help CISOs reduce shadow IT and prevent SaaS-related breaches.

At AUMINT.io, we complement these assessments by simulating how employees interact with SaaS apps and could be manipulated, exposing hidden human risks that automated tools may miss.

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