China-Linked ‘Muddling Meerkat’ Hijacks DNS to Map Internet on Global Scale

April 29, 2024 at 10:00AM Since October 2019, a new cyber threat, Muddling Meerkat, has used DNS activities to evade security measures and conduct network reconnaissance worldwide. Linked to China, the threat exploits DNS open resolvers and manipulates DNS queries from Chinese IP space. This sophisticated threat involves false MX record responses and may be … Read more