via Muks Hirani, Sarah Jones and Ben Read writing at FireEye's threat research blog, comes notification of world-wide-dns-at-scale hijacks. Pre-election first-pass, stakes-in-the-ground reconnaisance foundation building? Or simple larcency? You be the judge. H/T

"FireEye Intelligence identified access from Iranian IPs to machines used to intercept, record and forward network traffic. While geolocation of an IP address is a weak indicator, these IP addresses were previously observed during the response to an intrusion attributed to Iranian cyber espionage actors." - via Muks Hirani, Sarah Jones and Ben Read writing at FireEye's threat research blog