[NCUC-DISCUSS] Reuters: Exclusive: Hackers acting in Turkey's interests believed to be behind recent cyberattacks - sources

[Bruna Martins dos Santos]

Hey all,

Thought it would be important to share it here. Reuters reported today on a
case of cyberattacks or, in their words: *state-backed cyber espionage
operation conducted to advance Turkish interests.* According to the
article, the MO involved exploiting weaknesses in DNS to hack high profile
victims, foreign intelligence agencies and human rights advocates.

*"The hackers used a technique known as DNS hijacking, according to the
Western officials and private cybersecurity experts. This involves
tampering with the effective address book of the internet, called the
Domain Name System (DNS), which enables computers to match website
addresses with the correct server.*



*By reconfiguring parts of this system, hackers were able to redirect
visitors to imposter websites, such as a fake email service, and capture
passwords and other text entered there.Reuters reviewed public DNS records,
which showed when website traffic was redirected to servers identified by
private cybersecurity firms as being controlled by the hackers. All of the
victims identified by Reuters had traffic to their websites hijacked -
often traffic visiting login portals for email services, cloud storage
servers and online networks — according to the records and cybersecurity
experts who have studied the attacks.*

Article can be found here:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-attack-hijack-exclusive-idUSKBN1ZQ10X


Best Regards,

-- 
*Bruna Martins dos Santos *

Skype ID: bruna.martinsantos
@boomartins
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