Hacktivists have added a new tactic to their arsenal: redirecting all of the traffic from a target company's website.
According to a blog written by security expert Lars Harvey of IID, politically motivated attackers are now using DNS hijacks, which redirect all the traffic from a victim's legitimate website (and often all the email and back-end transactions, too) to a destination of the attacker's choosing.

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