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DNS Spoofing Attack: How Hackers Hijack Your Traffic

In April 2018, attackers hijacked the DNS servers used by MyEtherWallet and redirected users to a phishing site hosted in Russia. The entire attack lasted roughly two hours. In that window, victims lost around $17 million in cryptocurrency — simply because their browsers resolved a legitimate domain name to a malicious

Carl B. Johnson Jan 09, 2023 7 min read
DNS Spoofing

DNS Spoofing Attack: How It Works and How to Stop It

In April 2022, researchers at Avast discovered that the GhostDNS botnet had compromised over 100,000 home routers across Brazil — silently redirecting banking customers to pixel-perfect phishing pages. Victims typed their real bank URLs into their browsers. The addresses looked correct. But every keystroke landed on a threat actor'

Carl B. Johnson Apr 07, 2020 8 min read