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Maynard Koch

Maynard Koch is a PhD student and research associate at the Chair of Distributed and Networked Systems at TU Dresden, supervised by Prof. Dr. Matthias Wählisch. Before joining TU Dresden, he graduated with a BSc and MSc in Computer Science from Freie Universität Berlin. His research focuses on Internet measurements to improve network security. He is particularly interested in DNS and scalable IPv6 scanning.

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Forward to hell? On misusing transparent DNS forwarders For amplification attacks

By Maynard Koch on 12 Feb 2026

Guest Post: Research shows the threat vector introduced by transparent DNS forwarders that enable access to shielded recursive resolvers, and scale better in terms of potential attack volume.