Global DNS Hijacking Blamed on Iranian Hackers

Global DNS Hijacking Blamed on Iranian Hackers

Security researchers have spotted a new series of DNS hijacking attacks successfully targeting organizations globally on a large scale and traced back to Iran.

The attacks have managed to compromise “dozens” of domains run by government, telecommunications and internet infrastructure in the Middle East and North Africa, Europe and North America. In so doing, they change DNS records to direct users to malicious but legitimate-looking, Let’s Encrypt certified domains where email credentials are harvested.

By Phil Muncaster

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