On Tuesday afternoon, the Department of Homeland Security ordered federal agencies to implement a variety of security measures aimed at preventing DNS hijacking attacks. As part of such attacks, threat actors target the domain name system (DNS) infrastructure that plays an essential role in directing Internet traffic, in order to redirect legitimate traffic to malicious websites.
The emergency directive was issued in response to a recent uptick in DNS hijacking attacks that have already affected six civilian agency domains.
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