NCSC issues warning over global DNS hijacking campaign
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computing.co.uk
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has issued an advisory over a large-scale global DNS hijacking campaign.
The advisory discusses the risks and mitigations for organisations to protect themselves from such attacks, in which threat actors change the domain name system (DNS) records of websites and redirect visitors to malicious sites instead.
DNS is the service that helps internet users navigate to a web domain by correctly pointing the web browser to an IP address. Changing DNS records, though, not only enables cybercriminals to redirect users to malicious websites, but they can also modify the ownership details of web domains, thus making them difficult to recover.
