China-Linked 'Muddling Meerkat' Hijacks DNS to Map Internet on Global Scale

A previously undocumented cyber threat dubbed Muddling Meerkat has been observed undertaking sophisticated domain name system (DNS) activities in a likely effort to evade security measures and conduct reconnaissance of networks across the world since October 2019.
Cloud security firm Infoblox described the threat actor as likely affiliated with the

actor china cloud cloud security cyber cyber threat dns domain domain name evade global infoblox internet map name networks october reconnaissance scale security security measures system threat threat actor undocumented world