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Eccouncil 312-38 Exam - Topic 6 Question 101 Discussion
Topic #: 6
A popular e-commerce company has recently received a lot of complaints from its customers. Most
of the complaints are about the customers being redirected to some other website when trying to
access the e-com site, leading to all their systems being compromised and corrupted. Upon
investigation, the network admin of the firm discovered that some adversary had manipulated the
company's IP address in the domain name server's cache. What is such an attack called?
The attack described is known as DNS Poisoning, also referred to as DNS Spoofing. This type of attack occurs when an attacker manipulates the DNS server's cache, so that the server returns an incorrect IP address for a website. This results in users being redirected to malicious websites instead of the intended destination. The attacker's goal is typically to spread malware, steal personal information, or disrupt services. DNS Poisoning is a serious security threat because it can be used to compromise entire networks and is difficult to detect.
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