Muddling Meerkat
| Actor Type | Nation State |
|---|---|
| Attributed to Nation | China |
Muddling Meerkat is an actor tracked by researchers at Infoblox and assorted partners. Infoblox suggest that the group appear to be a People's Republic of China (PRC) nation state actor.
According to published reporting, Muddling Meerkat conduct complex, large scale operations. The group has been observed conducting active operations through DNS, utilizing the Chinese Great Firewall and 'slow drip' (also known as random pre-fix) distributed denial of service attacks.
According to the researchers, the name Muddling Meerkat was chosen due to the fact the observed behavior 'pops up and down' like meerkats which can also be deceptively clever and ferocious.
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MUDDLING MEERKAT: THE GREAT FIREWALL MANIPULATOR
This research from infoblox details a sophisticated cyber operation involving DNS queries, open DNS resolvers, and China's Great Firewall, ...