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Cybersecurity reports and statistics published by DNSFilter
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Research Reports
Reports and publications from DNSFilter
DNSFilter Data Reveals Major Threat Vector as Students Bypass School Security Controls
11/25/2025
The DNS Record: Q3 Security Report 2025
7/31/2025
New DNSFilter Research Finds Companies Are Increasingly Blocking Certain GenAI Tools
5/20/2025
DNSFilter Research Shows Huge Spike in Fake Travel Sites Ahead of Summer Vacation Season
5/8/2025
Recent Statistics & Reports
There was a 295% increase on November 8, 2025, in domains containing the term 'roblox'.
11/29/2025•
Education sectorSchool networksRoblox
In school networks, traffic to proxy and filter avoidance categories increased by 83% on November 9, 2025, compared to the previous 12-month average.
11/29/2025•
Education sectorSchool networksTraffic to proxy and filter avoidance
In October 2025, the education industry ranked third highest in proxy/filter-avoidance requests.
11/29/2025•
Education sectorSchool networksProxy/filter avoidance requests
Malicious gaming-related domains rose by 462% on September 22, 2025, compared to the previous 12-month average.
11/29/2025•
Education sectorSchool networksMalicious gaming-related domains
Almost 4% of DNS traffic was blocked by DNSFilter, which is the highest percentage of blocked traffic on record.
7/31/2025•
DNS traffic
New domains accounted for nearly 40% of traffic requests categorized as malicious.
7/31/2025•
DNS traffic
Phishing and deception made up 31.6% of traffic on DNSFilter's network, marking an increase compared to the prior quarter. This amounted to over 750 million queries.
7/31/2025•
DNS trafficPhishing
The DNSFilter network processed billions more DNS queries in Q2 2025 compared to the previous quarter. June specifically recorded the highest DNS traffic volume for that quarter.
7/31/2025•
DNS traffic
New domains accounted for nearly 40% of traffic requests categorized as malicious.
7/31/2025•
DNS traffic
Malware was identified as the second most trafficked threat category.
7/31/2025•
DNS trafficMalware
Of the top five country code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs) identified as likely to be malicious, four were associated with island nations. Domains linked to the Faroe Islands (.fo) were the most prevalent, with 27% of their traffic deemed malicious. Other island nations high on this list included Grenada, Mayotte, and Wallis and Futuna.
7/31/2025•
DNS traffic
Almost 4% of DNS traffic was blocked by DNSFilter, which is the highest percentage of blocked traffic on record.
7/31/2025•
DNS traffic
There was a 92% decrease in malicious and fake ChatGPT and other generative AI sites between April 2024 and April 2025.
5/20/2025•
AIGen AITraffic
DNSFilter blocked over 60 million generative AI requests in March.
5/20/2025•
AIGen AITraffic
In March, Notion accounted for 93% of all blocked generative AI queries, significantly more than the combined number for Microsoft Copilot, SwishApps, Quillbot, and OpenAI.
5/20/2025•
AIGen AITraffic
Since January 2024, DNSFilter has been processing a monthly average of over 330 million queries that fall under the generative AI category.
5/20/2025•
AIGen AITraffic
This number of blocked requests represented about 12% of all generative AI queries processed by DNSFilter in March.
5/20/2025•
AIGen AITraffic
There was a 2,000% rise in malicious sites containing "openai" in their name between April 2024 and April 2025
5/20/2025•
AIGen AITraffic
In 2025, the largest spike in traffic to threat sites with travel terms in their name occurred on April 28, marking a 116% increase over the average since 2023.
5/8/2025•
Threat sites
Common terms used in malicious sites purporting to be legitimate travel sites include "Delta," "Spirit," "beach," "package," and "tour;" the top-trafficked vacation scam sites include the word "Mexico."
5/8/2025•
Threat sites
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