Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2017-12-14 00:00:00
Affected organization: Fox-IT
Affected country: Netherlands
Industry: Information
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Data in Transit
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Dutch security firm Fox-IT reveals to have fallen victim of a DNS Hijacking attack on September 19th 2017. The attacker modifies a DNS record for one particular server to point to a server in their possession and to intercept and forward the traffic to the original server that to Fox-IT.