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DNS Spoofing Attack: How Hackers Redirect Your Traffic

In April 2024, researchers at Akamai discovered a massive DNS hijacking campaign targeting financial institutions across Southeast Asia. Attackers poisoned DNS caches at the ISP level, silently redirecting thousands of banking customers to pixel-perfect phishing sites. Victims entered their credentials on pages that looked identical to their bank's

Carl B. Johnson May 14, 2026 5 min read
DNS Spoofing Attack

DNS Spoofing Attack: How Hackers Hijack Your Traffic

In April 2018, attackers hijacked the DNS records for Amazon's Route 53 service, redirecting traffic meant for MyEtherWallet.com to a malicious server in Russia. Users who typed the correct URL into their browsers still landed on a fake site. Within two hours, attackers stole roughly $150,000

Carl B. Johnson Sep 03, 2021 7 min read