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SOPA Protesters Try New Tactic: DNS Hijacks

Politically motivated attackers are now using DNS hijacks, redirecting all of the traffic from a target company’s website. Many companies pay little, if any, attention to securing their domain registrations, a security expert says. On Sunday, the domain name UFC.com was hijacked by a hacktivist group that apparently didn’t like the mixed-martial arts company fighting the organization’s support of the SOPA/PIPA online piracy bills. On Monday evening that same group, called UGNazi, hijacked two domain names, coach.com and coachfactory.com.”]

Source: https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/sopa-protesters-try-new-tactic-dns-hijacks

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