ICANN warns of "ongoing and significant" attacks against internet's DNS infrastructure

The internet's address book keeper has warned of an "ongoing and significant risk" to key parts of the domain name system infrastructure, following months of increased attacks. It follows similar warnings from security companies and the federal government in the wake of attacks believe to be orchestrated by nation state hackers. In January, security company FireEye revealed that hackers likely associated with Iran were hijacking DNS records on a massive scale, by rerouting users from a legitimate web address to a malicious server to steal passwords.