The New York Times, Twitter and Huffington Post UK were victims of cyber-attacks on their domain name systems providers. Experts say the attacks may have opened themselves and their customers to more nefarious attacks. A watering hole attack allows a hacker to tie malware to content, so when users access an article from a newspaper website or click on a link in a social network feed, they’ll unwittingly download malware. The Times says the disruption was “the result of a malicious external attack” that also affected the sending of e-mail messages from the company’s domain.”]
Source: https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/times-twitter-attacks-raise-new-alarms-a-6025