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NSA warns “fast flux” threatens national security. What is fast flux anyway?

  • A technique known as fast flux, used by hostile nation-states and financially motivated ransomware groups, poses a threat to critical infrastructure and national security.
  • Fast flux allows threat actors to hide their infrastructure and survive takedown attempts by cycling through a range of IP addresses and domain names.
  • The constant change of IP addresses and domain names complicates the task of identifying the true origin of the infrastructure and provides redundancy.
  • The NSA, FBI, and their counterparts from Canada, Australia, and New Zealand have warned that this technique enables malicious cyber actors to consistently evade detection and conceal their malicious operations.

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