LONDON (Reuters) – Sweeping cyber attacks targeting governments and other organizations in Europe and the Middle East are believed to be the work of hackers acting in the interests of the Turkish government, three senior Western security officials said. A senior Turkish official did not respond directly to questions about the campaign but said Turkey was itself frequently a victim of cyber attacks. The broader series of attacks is ongoing, according to the officials as well as private cyber security investigators. The hackers used a technique known as DNS hijacking, according to the Western officials and private cyber security experts. While small-scale DNS attacks are relatively common, the scale of these attacks has alarmed Western intelligence agencies, said the three officials and two other U.S. intelligence officials.

Source: Egypt Independent January 27, 2020 13:52 UTC