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Sanctioned Bulletproof Host Tied to DNS Hijacking

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A financially motivated threat actor hacked domain name system resolvers and connected them to a Russian bulletproof hosting service. The hosting service was sanctioned by the U.S. Department of Treasury for criminal links.

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Original Source Material

Shadow Aeza International Directed Traffic to Malicious Adtech A financially motivated threat actor hacked dozens of domain name system resolvers, connecting them to the infrastructure of a Russian bulletproof hosting service sanctioned by the U.S. Department of Treasury for its criminal links, researchers found.