Cisco Talos says state-sponsored hackers are hijacking and redirecting Web traffic of targeted organizations in over a dozen countries in a brazen DNS hijacking campaign. Most of the victims of the “Sea Turtle” campaign are national security-related and include ministries of foreign affairs, intelligence agencies, and military organizations. The primary motive for the Sea Turtle campaign appears to be cyber espionage, the security vendor says. The threat group has also targeted DNS registrars, Internet service providers, telecommunication companies that provide access to its primary targets.”]

