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January 22, 2008Theoretical Attack Goes Real World
Symantec is alerting people to the following Pharming attack, which they're calling a 'Drive-By Pharming attack.' Alerting the industry of this type of attack a year ago, where all that's required is that the victim would simply have to view malicious HTML or JavaScript code, which could either be placed in an email or up on a website, the code changes the DNS server settings so that, subsequent to the attack, all future DNS requests would go through the bad guy's DNS server.
Symantec first become aware of this attack as a theoretical possibility, but has now seen actual instances of the attack. The get the whole story, I recommend you click right here!
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