Displaying items by tag: DNS hijacking

The Cisco Talos Intelligence Group has lost one of its better researchers, with Paul Rascagnères moving over to join Kaspersky's Global Threat Research unit this year.

A state-sponsored group compromised the organisation that manages the top-level domains for Greece — .gr and .el — in April this year, the Cisco Talos Intelligence Group claims, adding that those behind it appeared to be a group that they had earlier named Sea Turtle.

A new cyber threat campaign that is claimed to be targeting public and private entities, including national security organisations in the Middle East and North Africa, has been discovered by Cisco's Talos Intelligence Group.

Waves of DNS hijackings over the past three months, aimed at consumer-grade routers mostly from D-Link, have been diverting traffic from a number of well-known domains and directing them elsewhere.