Researchers from Cisco Talos received the Pter Szr Award for DNS-related attacks over the past year. Talos researchers Paul Rascagneres and Warren Mercer were in attendance to receive the award. The award was awarded at the annual Virus Bulletin conference last week. It is widely considered the most prestigious award in the field of threat research. In July, Talos discovered Sea Turtle was still active, utilizing a likely new DNS hijacking technique to go after additional victims. This time, Sea Turtle compromised a countrys code top-level domain (ccTLD) registry.”]
Source: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2019/10/talos-takes-home-top-research-honors-at.html