Cyberspies Hijacked the Internet Domains of Entire Countries
Cyberspies Hijacked the Internet Domains of Entire Countries
Security, Spoken · SpokenLayer
April 19, 20198m 55s
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Show Notes
The discovery of a new, sophisticated team of hackers spying on dozens of government targets is never good news. But one team of cyberspies has pulled off that scale of espionage with a rare and troubling trick, exploiting a weak link in the internet's cybersecurity that experts have warned about for years: DNS hijacking, a technique that meddles with the fundamental address book of the internet.
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