A list of sites appeared to be redirecting to an SEA server appears to be a result of a DNS attack. The Times, Twitter and Huffington Post sites with a top-level U.K. domain name were also targeted. The attack traced the attack to a valid account at a U.S. reseller, Melbourne IT says. The group may soon ramp up its online attacks, especially since the Syrian civil war has claimed more than 100,000 lives, the U.N. says.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/ny-times-caught-in-syrian-hacker-attack